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Bode cited Department of Agriculture statistics indicating that the fraction of eligible people receiving food stamps has risen from 45 percent to 62 percent since...
...food stamp program, created by Congress in 1964, currently helps nearly 20 million Americans buy food, but another 10 to 15 million eligible people do not receive benefits, according to federal estimates. Brown said recently enacted federal regulations have causes the fraction of eligible people who receive benefits to decline...
...Crimson are partly groundless, partly ludicrous, and partly based on a small minority. There are thousands of students at Harvard. The majority voted for Mondale in the campus poll taken in 1984; they would be characterized as liberal by most observers. Of these thousands, only a small fraction have been involved in such incidents as throwing eggs and preventing free speech. It is unfair and misleading for the Crimson to take these few, and accuse the rest of us of being exactly like them. Christine E. Webber...
...Democratic proposal that would have banned any new U.S. funds to the contras fighting Nicaragua's Sandinista government. Even supporters of such a total ban viewed it as doomed. As soon as it was defeated, they figured, they would offer another measure that would give President Reagan a fraction of the $100 million he wants in contra aid. But as the scoreboard ticked off the tally, Democrats watched in amazement. The measure was winning, mainly because few Republicans were voting. Suddenly, with time running out, the Republicans pushed their vote buttons in a rush and -- what was this...
...Harvard] is providing vital services to students, faculty, and the country, but I don't see why the city ought to be the one who's subsidizing it," Sullivan said. "Historically, it's a very small fraction of what the taxes would...