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...Committee, for example, reluctantly chopped some $12 billion from such programs as Head Start, child nutrition and assistance for the handicapped. Funds for college student loans were slashed by limiting eligibility to families making less than $25,000 a year. The committee, however, bucked the Administration by refusing to fold the remaining funds into block grants to the states. Instead, Congress intends to continue to control the funds through categorical grants. By following this approach, the committee opened the way for the full House to restore money to a number of popular programs...
...rabbi's wife uses TV to lure dropouts back to the fold...
Kirkland, in one of his first moves as George Meany's successor, invited the Teamsters to rejoin the AFL-CIO, which had expelled the Teamsters in 1957 for corruption. Bringing the Teamsters back into the fold would yield the federation $380,000 a year in new dues and would ban the Teamsters from raiding other unions. But the Teamsters' executive board last week did not even ask the convention to consider the reunification overture...
...large, remote-controlled telescope into orbit high above the earth's obscuring atmosphere. From there, astronomers should be able to see out 14 billion light-years (seven times farther than they can see using the biggest earthbound reflectors), expanding the volume of the known universe about 350-fold and bringing them very close to what is presumed to be its "edge." Says Physicist Robert Jastrow (God and the Astronomers): "We don't know what we'll find out there, whose hand we'll see at work." Also in 1985, the shuttle is slated...
...royalty rates and marketing clout that ECM has to offer. This has led, almost inevitably, to the threat of corporate complacency, a cloud over the cachet. ECM has taken some heat for issuing smug, snug suburban jazz, and, perhaps in response, Eicher has brought some fringe groups into the fold. He has released two records by the Art Ensemble of Chicago, who lay down a kind of ripped and fragmented aural collage, as well as an acetylene album by Old and New Dreams, a group of former Coleman sidemen, populated by such wizards as Don Cherry and Charlie Haden...