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Americans put everything from lavish dinners to European holidays on credit cards, so why not let the needy use plastic to buy necessities? By next July welfare recipients in San Francisco will be able to charge everything from food purchases to doctors' bills on a public assistance card, complete with magnetic strip and photograph. City officials predict that the new system, - which will do away with such fixtures of the welfare life as food stamps and triplicate medicaid forms, will save $6 million a year and cut layers of bureaucracy. Though several other states have used welfare credit, San Francisco...
...week was lacking in the austerity that the International Monetary Fund has usually demanded from its cash- strapped borrowers. Instead, on the occasion of the annual joint meeting of the IMF and the World Bank, there were scores of parties, ranging from elegant dinners in Georgetown town houses to lavish banquets in the National Gallery's East Building. Hundreds of guests arrived in long lines of limousines and munched golden raspberries from California, wild mushrooms from France, and smoked pheasant...
...true negro doesn't want integration" and that "the hand of Moscow" could be seen behind the Supreme Court's landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision--was the disturbing fact that most of those who listen to Falwell's Old Time Gospel Hour don't see past the lavish tabernacle and the choir's shimmering white robes...
...towards the "invitation only" functions scheduled for the College 350th Celebration. It is unfortunate, perhaps insensitive, for Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III to schedule a ball that only some of the students can attend; it is downright offensive for him to choose who will be invited to lavish teas and dinners based on some nebulous conception of merit...
...praise Tolins gets from his peers is so lavish that at times his theatrical co-workers can't avoid giving their enthusiasm for him the little extra push that is all it needs to turn into self-parody. "He knows everything about everything," complains fellow Pudding script writer Blake. "He hits a golf ball better than I do, he has to shave more often than I do, and he was a great Little League baseball player...