Word: jepsen
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...which were golden years for farmers. The Senate Agriculture Committee's bill would have set milk price supports at 75% of parity, at a cost of $4.5 billion over five years. But the Senate, by a vote of 51 to 42, approved an amendment by Iowa Republican Roger Jepsen substituting the Administration's original proposal. The new version would effectively allow the support price of milk to fall to as low as 65% of parity by fiscal 1983 before pegging it at 70%, at a projected five-year saving of $1 billion...
...FAMILY. Republican Senator Roger Jepsen of Iowa has introduced an omnibus "Family Protection Act" that is something of a New Right wish list. Among many other provisions, it would exclude "discipline or corporal punishment methods applied by a parent" from the restrictions of child-abuse laws, deny federal funds to schools that do not allow "parental review of textbooks prior to their use in public school classrooms," prevent any school from using federal money to buy educational materials that present an overly progressive view of "the status role of men and women" and permit any schools receiving federal cash...
Manpower. This may be the most critical problem of all. As Republican Senator Roger Jepsen of Iowa puts it: "We can spend billions annually on the most modern and sophisticated weaponry, but in the final analysis it is the infantryman, sailor, pilot and medic that will determine our nation's strength." For the moment, all the armed services are meeting their enlistment goals and the quality of recruits has improved dramatically. From October through March, 68% of all volunteers joining the Army were high school graduates, vs. only 37% a year earlier. The increase coincided almost exactly with the effective...
Mendel's studies on the inheritance of physical characteristics provided the missing link for Darwin's evolutionary theory. The synthesis of their ideas required the remarkable imagination and brashness of such scientists as Wright, Haldane, Fisher, Chetverikov, Mayr, Simpson, Dobzhansky, Jepsen and others working in population genetics, systematics, cytology, and paleontology...