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...officials say the sales foster good relations with other military forces, enable those countries to defend themselves better and reduce the price of U.S. weapons by spreading the cost over bigger production runs. "We're pushing hard for overseas arms sales to make up for the shrinking U.S. military budget," confides an arms marketeer at a major defense contractor. "It's a matter of survival...
...would also be a budget buster. According to an analysis done for TIME by the Child Welfare League of America, the annual welfare cost of one child living with his or her mother is $2,644. The same child living with a foster family costs the public $4,800 a year. The average cost for the child's care in "residential group care," today's closest approximation of an orphanage, is $36,500. If even a quarter of an estimated 1 million children who would be cut loose under Gingrich's plan ended up in orphanages, the additional cost...
...million mothers who may love their children should be forced to give them up to institutions. It is about the half a million children already in the system, whose parents are either dead or have proved themselves abusive or negligent, and whether orphanages should be used to supplement foster placements that don't work out. "Orphanages" proper have been out of vogue for so long that it is hard today to locate a building with "orphanage" in its name. However, a small but growing number of social scientists and social-welfare professionals has been advocating their return...
...taxpayers who pay the bills and for the families who are trapped on it." Newly-empowered GOP leaders, meanwhile, have their own designs on the issue: House Republicans want to abolish more than 100 social programs -- Aid to Families with Dependent Children and federal efforts dealing with child and foster care, food stamps, nutrition and job training -- and replace them with grants to state governments...
...Despard, back at Ruddigore to assume the title of baronet and fall victim to the curse. Meanwhile, having adopted the clever pseudonym "Robin," Ruthven falls in love with the village sweet-heart, the prissy flake Rose Maybud. For the rest of the first act, Ruthven competes with his unlikely foster brother, the salty sea-tar Richard, for Rose's hand. The first act is also plagued by the appearance of Mad Margaret, a woman supposedly crazed with love for Despard, who comes off less as a humorous character than as a frightening, overplayed British Cassandra...