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...program will forgive the entire loan payments owed by graduates who earn under $15,000 annually. In addition, the program stipulates that alumni with salaries between $15,000 and $30,000 a year will be permitted to defer loan payments in excess of 10 percent of their gross income. The income ceiling will rise with the rate of inflation...
Most Notable, Unnoted Play of the Week: This week's award goes to Coach Joe Restic, who directed Captain Duksky to defer his option if he won the coin toss before the game...
...related theme is his advocacy of "judicial restraint," the idea that judges should defer to legislative and Executive decisions. Unless a clear constitutional right is violated, he believes, the majority through its elected officials may impose its will on the minority, even if judges consider the resulting laws to be insidious or unwise. For example, though Bork has argued that the court did not have the constitutional justification to strike down the anticontraceptive law in the Griswold case, he has spoken disparagingly of the statute itself. "Even if we assume that courts have superior capacities for dealing with matters...
...Deal court -- a series of rulings that upheld the power of the Federal Government to regulate business in many fields. But he maintains that he would not seek to overturn them because they form the basis for many subsequent court decisions and administrative practices. Would he likewise defer to other ! past rulings, notably the abortion decision? Bork declines...
According to King, Eastern foremen have a good reason to defer maintenance: they can earn bonuses for getting planes out of the hangar fast. Under an Eastern incentive program started in January, the airline's employees set performance goals for themselves, subject to management approval. In the case of the Boston maintenance station, the goal is to make sure that less than 4% of all flights miss their scheduled departure times because of delays resulting from repairs, preflight loading, cleaning or the like. King says one supervisor earned an extra $800 through the incentive program in the first three months...