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...Reagan refused to sign it. His pocket veto infuriated lobbyists like Peggy Charren, president of Action for Children's Television, who called Reagan's refusal a form of "ideological child abuse." Democrat Edward Markey of Massachusetts, a co-sponsor of the House bill, said 20% of U.S. television stations exceed the proposed limits on commercials. He plans to reintroduce the measure next year and hopes for a more favorable response from the new Administration...
...just give faculty an inflationary increase then you would stay with inflation, but if you give them a meritory increase then you must exceed inflation," Blackburn said...
However, those funds might run short. Devine says Congress has "earmarked" $20 million for the EEOC to distribute to state and local agencies, a cap which the agency may exceed...
While the problems in commercial banking are serious, the situation in the savings and loan industry is an outright disaster. At least 500 of the more than 3,000 S and Ls are insolvent: their liabilities exceed their assets. In 1987 alone, the Government closed 17 insolvent S and Ls and paid stronger institutions to take over 31 more. The total cost to FSLIC: nearly $4 billion. FSLIC (pronounced fizz-lick in the industry) would have shut down many more S and Ls, but the agency virtually ran out of money to pay depositors. In the meantime, the insolvent...
...assertions, sayingthat the increasing college costs reflect a needto keep faculty salaries competitive and higherprices for library and other materials. Theyargued that since the cost of the goods andservices colleges and universities purchase (theso-called "Higher Education Price Index") aregenerally higher than the nationwide CPI tuitionhikes are bound to exceed inflation...