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...state budget. Normally fractious politicians in Sacramento, embarrassed by the perennial budget debacles that have plagued the state and apprehensive about the seemingly-endless recession, have joined to make California more business-friendly. Last year, the state legislature passed comprehensive pro-business workers' compensation reform and began to loosen the noose of bureaucratic and environmental regulations that have for so long driven businesses out of the state...
John Kennedy of Massachusetts joined Republican Everett Dirksen of Illinois to help push Eisenhower's bill to loosen restrictions on foreign aid to communist nations. Johnson plunged in time and time again to help Ike, never more so than on the first civil rights bill, in l957. Georgia's Russell, in his last great stand for the Old South, softened the measure. But a bill of sorts was passed, the first fissure in a century of racism. L.B.J., wearing his silver-silk suit, which seemed to glow in the dim Senate corridors, knew what he was doing...
Faced with a federal prison population that has more than doubled nationwide in the past decade and incarceration costs that average $20,000 a person each year, judges often welcome the alternatives to imprisonment that consultants are paid to contrive. Recent efforts to loosen federal sentencing guidelines, which restrict a judge's discretion in letting convicted offenders avoid prison, could further this trend. Attorney General Janet Reno has announced she will review and possibly dispense with sentencing guidelines for minor drug offenses, and U.S. District Judge Harold Greene declared guidelines unconstitutional in a variety of cases. A change...
...press release, President Neil L. Rudenstine said the creation of the fund is only one step toward improving Harvard's faculty diversity. The fund will help loosen the tightened financial pursestrings that can hinder new faculty appointments, Rudenstine said...
UNITED NATIONS SECRETARY-GENERAL BOUTROS BOUTROS-GHALI could be trying to loosen America's grip on power within the U.N. One new Under Secretary-General was scolded by Boutros-Ghali for choosing an American as his deputy. And when Bush appointee Dick Thornburgh left as U.N. Under Secretary-General of Administration and Management, Boutros-Ghali tried to take the influential position from America and give the U.S. a frilly public relations post instead. An American official in the U.N. complains that it's "a very clearly anti-American bent." However, with just one superpower left in the world, Boutros-Ghali...