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...hope the numbers in the story (April 2) on the potential loss by the Legal Services Institute of the Law School of its funding from the Legal Services Corporation are wrong. The story ("Budget Cuts May Hamper Legal Service") asserts that the Institute gets $500,000 a year, 24 law students and 8 GSAS students are presently involved, and that it handles cases for people who cannot afford legal fees. It thus appears the Institute is costing us roughly 15,600 per student involved. What can possibly explain these figures, unless it is an error? I assume the students...
...large majority of all voters, however, agreed that inefficiency and corruption hamper state and local governments. Three-fourths of the 1500 who responded to the survey, conducted two weeks after the November 4 election, said state government was inefficient and could trim 15 per cent from its budget without reducing services. Sixty per cent said the same about local governments...
...unilateral nuclear disarmament. The Dutch Labor Party has voted to reduce sharply Holland's nuclear role in NATO. So far, European leaders have managed to hold the line against this current and maintain a pro-Alliance course. But if the antimilitaristic mood continues to grow, it will hamper the ability of NATO governments to carry out their December 1979 pledge to deploy 572 U.S.-built cruise and Pershing II missiles on their soil...
...costumes, despite their drawbacks, are subordinate to other aspects of the play. Poor acting and directing might hamper success far more. Richard McElvain as Tartuffe and Janet Rodgers as Elmire stand out, but the entire cast of Tartuffe is strong. McElvain marches solemnly up and down stairs, hands clasped or crossed across his breast, head bent in humility, eyes wily and darting everywhere. He smacks his lips greedily when fingering Elmire or household cash...
Dean Fox, Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, and Coburn will meet with the auditors to "get a sense of the underlying business" of HDNS and work out any obstacles which might hamper an HSA takeover, Coburn said. Also under discussion will be the use of College discretionary funds to aid HDNS and student organizations...