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...County-USC was delivered on Monday by L.A. County chief administrative officer Sally Reed. Saying that she wanted to "put reality on table," Reed announced that the county risked insolvency unless it could make up a $1.2 billion budget shortfall within a year. She suggested a raft of drastic measures: a 20% cut in services, the elimination of 18,255 jobs and the closing of 30 parks and 15 libraries. But the biggest savings would come from shutting down the 9,000-employee County-USC Center, with its annual $803 million budget...
...staggering U.S. budget deficit and the danger it poses to coming generations are alarming. However, Congress must exercise caution in its efforts to balance the budget by fiscal year 2002. Any drastic measures can cause widespread unemployment and boost the crime rate. They could endanger the lives of children whose families rely on government assistance. Is there a way to lessen the misery of the people affected? Perhaps they could agree to a salary reduction or a shorter workweek rather than find themselves totally out of a job and unable to support their families. Public servants could start the ball...
...addition, although proposed cuts in research funding are still drastic, they are less severe than originally planned, he says...
Total randomization is a drastic change, and such a change can only be justified by a drastic problem. What, them, is claimed to be the problem? A lack of diversity in he housing system. When the administration says that houses are not diverse, they mean that groups defined by common commitments tend to congregate more in some houses than in others. But the administration's claim refuses to recognize that there are many different kinds of differences between human beings: economic, cultural, religious, racial, vocational, intellectual, political, sexual...
...owners tried to cut costs by drastic measures; the players resisted equally drastically...