Word: edwin
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...away with such fixtures of the welfare life as food stamps and triplicate medicaid forms, will save $6 million a year and cut layers of bureaucracy. Though several other states have used welfare credit, San Francisco will be the first to combine all aid programs under one card. Predicts Edwin Sarsfield, the city's social services director: "I think that within three years this will be in use statewide and in the rest of the nation as well...
...lifeline from Congress. The House and Senate passed bills that would have authorized the FSLIC to raise up to $25 billion in the capital markets. But in their rush to adjourn before next week's elections, the lawmakers neglected to reconcile the two different versions of the legislation. Edwin Gray, the chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, which oversees the FSLIC, had warned the lawmakers that a bailout was urgently needed. Gray said he was "deeply disappointed" by the impasse but vowed that his agency would "do its level best" to manage without the help...
Almost from the day he took office, Attorney General Edwin Meese has been feuding with the U.S. Supreme Court, grousing over its decisions and accusing the majority of failure to observe the intentions of the men who wrote the Constitution. Despite setbacks last term, when the court rejected Justice Department positions on such issues as affirmative action and abortion, Meese is still a man on the offensive. In a speech last week at Tulane University in New Orleans, he escalated his challenge to the high bench's authority. Quite simply, he said, Supreme Court decisions are not so supreme after...
...AMERICAN CONSTITUTION, an often vague political document written nearly two centuries ago, invites controversy. Still, there are certain facets of the polity it sets up we thought had been settled long ago. That is until last week, when Attorney General Edwin Meese III declared that the Supreme Court of the United States was not the ultimate interpreter of the Constitution. In a speech at Tulane University, America's highest-ranking law enforcement official asserted that the Court's decisions were not the supreme law of the land. Only the particular parties involved in cases decided by the Court, he said...
Government officials said they made the change in order to cut out what they viewed as very large overhead costs reported by universities. "After all, the original purpose of the set percentage was to reduce the huge and growing amount of overhead costs," said Edwin Dale, assistant director of the Office of Management and Budget...