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...elicit more protests, the House Budget Committee, led by its low-key but & effective chairman, William Gray of Philadelphia, held hearings on Reagan's proposed cuts in five cities coast to coast. "Ronald Reagan has declared war on the city of Chicago," fumed Mayor Harold Washington. The President's "dastardly" budget, exclaimed Budd Bell, head of the Florida Clearinghouse on Human Services at a hearing in Tallahassee, "will result in the dismantling of many lifesustaining programs." Ron Anderson, president of Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, denounced cuts in Medicare, Medicaid, maternal- and child-health grants and childhood immunization programs...
Today's group says the divestment issue does not elicit the same kind of response from students, who tend to see South Africa as an aberrant case rather than the symptom of a larger societal problem...
Today's group says the divestment issue does not elicit the same kind of response from students, who tend to see South Africa as an aberrant case rather than the symptom of a larger societal problem...
Today's group says the divestment issue does not elicit the same kind of response from students, who tend to see South Africa as an aberrant case rather than the symptom of a larger societal problem...
Some bosses think they can elicit brainstorms from their workers simply by plying them with coffee and doughnuts. But Bruce Katz, president of Rockport Co., a shoe manufacturer in Marlboro, Mass., thinks a little sun and wind surfing are a much better inducement. This summer he is spending a reported $15,000 a month to rent Plaisance, a 20-room chateau by the sea in Newport, R.I., that he has dubbed Camp Rockport. In groups of a dozen, each of his 220 employees takes a car pool to the mansion for two days of sports and shoptalk with the boss...