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...victory for liberals was dampened by an amendment by Republican Senator John Danforth of Missouri. His provision allows universities and hospitals to continue receiving federal funds even if they refuse to perform or pay for abortions. The House has yet to finish consideration of the Restoration Act, but its approval of the Danforth amendment is doubtful. In any event, President Reagan sees the act as a vast expansion of federal power and may veto...
...sections will range in size from 20 students meeting with a teaching fellow to five students who meet on their own, said Ellen Sarkisian, associate director of the Harvard Danforth Center for Teaching and Learning, who is helping to administer the sections in the course...
...however, is seriously proposing to reassemble AT&T. "These are eggs that can't be unscrambled," said Missouri's John Danforth, the ranking Republican on the Senate Commerce Committee. Instead, the Administration wants to encourage competition by deregulating the regional phone companies even further to allow diversification into such fields as insurance, real estate and computer manufacturing...
...galley (toilet and kitchen, to landlubbers) and sleeping facilities. Skippers can deduct the interest on loans used to buy their craft or obtain a yacht-equity credit line to cover the purchase of, say, a Rolls-Royce. "Aristotle Onassis would have loved this," fumes Republican Senator John Danforth of Missouri, a member of the Senate Finance Committee. "If we have to make choices in the tax code," he asks, "why would we want to choose yacht ownership over paying for college education or medical expenses?" Danforth has introduced legislation to close the porthole loophole...
When three Harvard undergraduates got drunk and went carousing in 1676, then Treasurer of Harvard College Thomas Danforth didn't have to worry about how they should be disciplined. He just put on his other hat as justice of the peace and arrested them...