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...support the case for the heavy tax, the report cites the volatile situation in the Middle East and the potential of a severe cutback in oil supplies because of "the imminent possibility of another revolution in the area," Chandler said...
...welfare changes effectively cut the number of recipients by some 400,000, while actually increasing the benefits for those needing help the most. A mother with three children, for example, had her monthly welfare check increased from $176 to $311. Reagan now boasts of this cutback in the rolls, but he does not mention that the number had grown by 1.1 million during his first four years in office. One of his ways to get freeloaders off welfare was to require some recipients to work part time, without pay, on community improvement projects...
...proposed cutback has prompted administrators to question Radcliffe's support of "non-traditional" women's education...
...deficits, and 2) to the extent that a cutback in driving reduces oil imports, the U.S. will make itself less vulnerable to petroleum price increases that the OPEC cartel may decree. But the fee will not spur all that much conservation: a reduction of only 100,000 bbl. a day the first year, by Carter's estimate, in petroleum imports that now average 8 million bbl. a day. In order to prompt really significant conservation, a gasoline tax on the order of the 50?-per-gal. bite that Republican John Anderson has been proposing might well be required...
...cutback in federal employees should have little effect on Cambridge bureaucracy. Malone said Cambridge "would not be directly adversely affected by that kind of a cut," but added that Cambridge residents who work for the federal government might indeed be affected...