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...program's immediate fault is its excessively generous parity level. A recent Agriculture Department tally found that after 27 years of diminishing dairy herds, dairy farmers last year added 72,000 milk cows, even though the only market for the extra output was the Government. When the dairy program comes up for a four-year renewal vote in Congress some time before Sept. 30, the Reagan Administration is planning to push for leeway to drop dairy-support prices to 70% of parity, or even lower if especially large surpluses occur...
...politician in the state. He has ethical blind spots: this winter, for example, he scheduled a birthday party for his wife, encouraged cash gifts from city employees, then canceled the party after public and media pressure and pledged to return the money. He has a keen eye and a generous hand with young talent, yet he fires some and drives many of the rest away...
Some of Young's critics have attacked him for giving generous tax abatements to businesses to entice them to build in the city's decaying downtown, while ignoring the collapse of residential neighborhoods. Many whites argue that the mayor plays too much to his black constituency; many blacks complain that economic power remains in the hands of "absentee" white businessmen who live in the leafy suburbs...
...especially galling to them when the Iran hostages returned to cheering crowds this winter. Yet, increasingly, the veterans' demands are shifting from spiritual appreciation for their sacrifices to material help of the kind sought by past generations of warriors: tuition aid comparable to the G.I. Bill of Rights; generous and inclusive disability pensions; and, more and more, better treatment at the nation's 172 Veterans Administration hospitals...
...suggestion from anybody on the faculty." In fact. Huggins describes the administration's willingness to tenure three new faculty last spring as an indication of its support for the department. Moreover, he has no complaints with the funding Afro-American studies has received, saying the University has been quite generous in its budgeting...