Word: j
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been dredged up. "When working-class Americans are being pitched off Amtrak passenger trains to save a few bucks," notes former White House speechwriter Pat Buchanan, "it approaches the obscene to demand that taxpayers triple their subsidy to this playpen of the penthouse proletariat." Never one for subtlety, James J. Kilpatrick says he "sees no reason on God's green earth for taking the taxpayer's money in order to nuture those happy hotdogs of the intellectual left who would love to get on the air and read their gaga poems at public expense." The commission characterizes public broadcasting...
...J. Lawrence Joyce, director of B&G, yesterday said B&G is waiting to see if the Working Committee on the Handicapped Program at Harvard recommends the purchase of shuttle buses equipped with hydraulic lifts before the new bus is ordered...
...hold commission seats. Despite its non-partisan composition, however, many state officials still view the commission with a mixture of fear and distrust. "Some people here perceive us as a horror story imposed on the legislature," David Brickman, commission member, explained recently. "But we are not a band of J. Edgar Hoover Jr.'s and we will do our job professionally, so that if they have nothing to hide they have nothing to fear...
...commission's path is the total absence of an investigative division to check the accuracy of disclosure information. As a Catch-22-style maneuver, the legislature authorized all but $35,000 of the commission's fiscal 1979 budget request, yet declined to create the investigative positions themselves. Gov. Edward J. King added to the commission's woes last Thursday when he proposed a $228,200 cut in its $631,350 budget request for the upcoming fiscal year...
...addition, an undergraduate group sponsored by the Radcliffe Forum and the Office of Institutional Policy Research on Women's Education initiated a "grass roots" movement to reach people on an individual level, Nancy J. Krieger '80, a member of the group, said this week...