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...fact that the White House has agreed to give to the Judiciary Committee all of the evidence that it gave Jaworski does not lessen the significance of the decision that Sirica faces. The grand jury evidence presumably applies directly to the President's role. Its acquisition could eliminate the time-consuming need for the Judiciary Committee staff to scour all of the material involving all of Nixon's aides to determine what is relevant to impeachment. Moreover, the grand jury material must also contain testimony of various Nixon aides who appeared before it-again possibly reducing the need...
Although the bill's expense is admittedly a large one, the continued guarantee of student loans would lessen the financial burdens middle-income families have been forced to face...
Officials of some other countries hope to lessen the pain of the oil crisis by various measures. In Brazil the government is determined to keep the economy booming, even at the price of subsidies for gasoline distributors, calculated by some experts to run as high as $500 million. The long-range effectiveness of that strategy obviously is doubtful; some publications complain that the UP) government is shielding them f from economic reality with the same paternalistic censorship that it applies to books and films. Sri Lanka (formerly called Ceylon) more realistically plans to cushion the crisis by jacking...
...were striving to cope with a new problem; overtraining the animals produced no higher levels of the substances. Hyden then injected animals with antibodies against the protein, which is called S-100. The injection, which blocked the protein's activity, also caused the animals' learning rate to lessen markedly. Other findings tend to reinforce this conclusion. Protein-deficient rats learn much more slowly than well-fed animals. Also, protein-deficient children from poor families habitually trail better-fed, middle-class children in intellectual development, even when the children receive the same education...
Smaller Burden. Some strong proponents of Social Security urge that the Social Security Administration be allowed to tap general revenues to finance part of its regular benefits, too. They contend that such a shift would lessen the burden on moderately paid workers. The main argument against financing Social Security entirely out of the special payroll tax is that a worker earning, say, $5,000 a year pays proportionately much more than a corporate chief who makes $200,000; though the rate for both is 5.85%, the tax is levied on the low-paid worker's entire income...