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...rather mildly remarked, "If we cannot stop it, we are eager to maintain the balance, the qualitative balance, of forces between us and the Arab countries." What he meant was soon apparent: the Reagan Administration said it would sell Israel 15 more F-15s for its air force, on generous credit terms...
...government now gives Harvard over $100 million annually in various forms of support for research, training, and facilities. But some of the most generous agencies, such as the National Science Foundation (NSF)--which gave the University over $12 million last year--may be cut back by as much as 75 per cent in critical divisions. Washington sources said this week...
Still, the change in direction that Reagan proposed could hardly be more jolting. The iron law of budgets has been that more citizens receive more generous federal benefits every year. Reagan would reverse that process: under his plan, fewer people would qualify for welfare benefits, for long-term unemployment compensation, for subsidized school lunches, for Social Security disability payments, for low-interest, federally guaranteed student loans. Some 400,000 of the 5½ million households now eligible to buy food stamps would be dropped from the rolls next year. And while total spending and tax collections would rise, they would...
...bear most of the burden of any further rise in hospital, nursing-home and doctors' fees, or cut the number of people they accept for Medicaid benefits. There have been proven abuses in the program, mainly involving doctors who overbill for services, and some states have overly generous eligibility requirements. Still, slashing Medicaid, which differs from Medicare in that it aids those people under 65 who cannot afford the care they need, will force many poor people to postpone treatment of their ailments until they require hospitalization. Then someone must help them. A report by the Washington-based Children...
...figures indicates that they are substantial. Flights to and from New York, three-day stays at the Sheraton Commander, receptions, videotapes, presentations, managers absent from work, and lucrative salaries begin to add up. But to Exxon managers, who regard today's students as the company's future, McCreery's generous recruiting budget is money well spent. "It's very high priority," he says. "We're selling a person on a career and a commitment...