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...months or more. The head of the A.M.A.'s legal department, for one, has already announced that it will argue against the regulation. The closemouthed National Geographic Society has declined to comment, but society officials said earlier that loss of its tax-exempt status might force a cutback in its scientific and educational activities. For the other side, cheers were led last week by former IRS Commissioner Mortimer Caplin, who has long fought to tax the taxexempt. "The business community is elated," he said. "This is a sound decision...
...doubts about how the big maker of tiny transistors and integrated circuits will do in 1967. The rate of new orders has "declined appreciably," so he ordered a temporary cutback of sorts in his Dallas plant: normal eight-hour work shifts were shortened by precisely 30 minutes...
...past four months, the British national press has been undergoing the most severe crisis of self-confidence in its history. First, an outsider-Canada's Lord Thomson-took over the London Times, symbol of Fleet Street stability. Then Harold Wilson's economic squeeze caused a drastic cutback in advertising. Finally, last week, a report confirmed the newspapers' worst fears: the industry is in dire trouble...
...reason was given for the NSF decision, Douglas L. Oliver, professor of Anthropology and chairman of the department said yesterday, but "there has been a good deal of research cutback due to the Vietnam war." Oliver also indicated that the NSF in recent years has begun to distribute funds to a larger number of colleges...
Meanwhile, other educators are stumping the state explaining what the suggested cutback would do to education. California residents understand very well that Reagan has suggested jettisoning a principle they have always taken for granted: the availability of free college education for their children. But administrators both in the universities and the state colleges are pointing out possible harms that probably never occur to the average Californian. The budget cut, they say, echoing Kerr, would preclude admitting any more students, although 10,000 more prospective students apply to the university each year; it might possibly dilute the quality of training...