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Most serious of all, the slick could do irreparable damage to plankton and other algae. At the bottom of the ocean food chain, these simple organisms, directly or indirectly, provide sustenance -to say nothing of life-giving oxygen -for all the creatures higher up on the ladder of marine life. The Breton seaweed crop, grown for the pharmaceutical, textile and food industries, represents 90% of France's seaweed production and 75% of Europe's. This year's crop has been heavily damaged...
...Expansion of small claims courts, where citizens can appear without lawyers and explain disputes in nontechnical language. In existing small claims courts, the limits are set unrealistically low (from $100 to $3,500). With higher ceilings and more personnel to reduce overcrowding, a sizable burden could be removed from other courts...
...deficits in four of the first six years of the 1970s; the red ink in recession-struck 1975 totaled more than $6 billion. But last year states and localities rolled up an aggregate surplus of almost $14 billion. Jimmy Carter, in his January economic message, put the figure much higher: almost $30 billion, which, he said, was "a drag on the economy." Governors and state legislators, worried that Congress would use the figure as an excuse to cut federal aid, protest that Carter improperly counted $15 billion in "social insurance" funds that are used to pay pensions, workmen...
Governors and mayors who might be embarrassed by big surpluses can take some ironic comfort in the thought that they will soon be dwindling. Higher spending and a probable slower rate of growth in the economy late this year will shrink the aggregate state-city surplus to somewhere between $5 billion and $10 billion in 1978. That is a tidy sum, but it gives officials less reason to keep federal deficits high...
...could be reduced to $480 billion by selective paring. If spending is brought down, the Government will be able to further cut personal and corporate taxes, which would offer the double benefit of strapping inflation and stimulating the economy. For invigorating the economy, lower taxes are more effective than higher Government spending...