Word: health
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...years Ohio Republican Clarence Miller has been proposing 5% reductions in the appropriations to run the federal departments-and has been ignored. Last week he demanded a 2% cut in the operating funds for the departments of Health, Education and Welfare, and Labor-and the cut passed the House, 220 to 181. If sustained by the Senate, this would save $800 million...
...traffic light and dragged him from his car. When his fiancée resisted the cops, she was bruised in the scuffle. Late last week, U.S. Consul Clifford Gross was allowed to visit Crawford at Moscow's Lefortovo Prison. Crawford appeared to be in good health but was distraught. U.S. officials insist that the Soviet allegations are trumped up. "There is no indication that he was into anything that wasn't completely aboveboard," said a senior State Department official...
There was no reaction to that emotional charge in Jerusalem. The Israelis were worried about Premier Menachem Begin's health and embroiled in a domestic debate about how the government should respond to Washington's request for more details on Israel's plan for autonomy for the occupied West Bank. His doctors say that Begin, who was resting at home last week, suffers from diabetes and heart trouble, but rumors persist that his health is worse than has been acknowledged. He both looks and acts ill. During a Cabinet meeting recently, Begin's head dropped...
Only once before had an Italian President left office prematurely-in 1964, when Antonio Segni resigned for reasons of health. Leone was bowing out almost seven months before his seven-year term was due to end because of the political storm that had blown up over accusations that he had been involved in payoffs and income tax irregularities. He insisted that he had been "an honest man" as President but his resignation was a recognition of political realities...
...Education Amendments Act passed by Congress in 1972: the passage known as Title IX. In essence, Title IX forbids sex discrimination any educational institution receiving federal funds. The prohibition applies on the athletic fields as well as in classrooms. To enforce Title IX, Congress gave the Department of Health, Education and Welfare an enormous weapon: the right to deny federal funds to any institution that does not measure up. Almost all of the nation's colleges and public schools get federal money of some kind?approximately $12.2 billion in all for the colleges, $4.9 billion for the public schools...