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...million welfare recipients are permit ted to spend their checks as they choose. The suggested change would mean that welfare tenants who failed to pay their rent for two months would be adjudged to have mismanaged their money. At this point, a landlord could ask state welfare officials to divert part of the A.F.D.C. for delinquent rent within the next 30 days. One critic of the proposed rule, Henry Freedman, director of the Center on Social Welfare Policy and Law, said that those on welfare should be permitted to spend their money as they please. Said Freedman of the plan...
...coal mines closed during Rockefeller's last term, and the unemployment rate at 13.6% is the highest in the country, but his prospects seem undamaged. "It's like, 'Don't blame Jay,' " grouses State G.O.P. Chairman Kent Hall. "Somehow he's able to divert attention away from his failures...
...Latin was not. As the century wore on, the former qualities became more important to society women like Mrs. Pepys, wife of the English diarist Samuel Pepys. In the words of a contemporary, Lady Chudleigh, women were educated "as if for nothing else designed/But made like puppets, to divert mankind...
...protect migrating caribou, representatives of the Eskimos asked years ago that Hydro-Quebec build a barrier to divert the animals from the crossings where last week's drownings occurred. Now, with as many as 25,000 caribou still headed for the crossings, the Quebec government is hastily arranging for a mile-long a fence to be built in the area. Authorities are discussing the use of hired planes to generate a sufficient amount of noise to divert the migrating herd...
...claims that the armed forces automatically divert all foreign donations of medical supplies in professionals suspected of treating or sympathizing with the rebels have been killed...