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...article ends with the usual mention of Los Angeles' sterilizing clinics, coupling a low-cost sterilizing operation with "thus limiting the number of abandoned pets." Nonsense! The type that would use a clinic would not abandon animals and vice versa. Spaying clinics are all underutilized, even where "binding" contracts for sterilizing are signed at the time of pet purchase. The fact that a vast majority of the puppy crop comes from the middle and upper classes of society means that the whole issue of tax-subsidized pet ownership has to be re-evaluated...
...countrymen in the nation's major cities, Pérez has offered incentives to lure people back to the fields. The government promised to assume past debts incurred by small farmers. It also removed price restraints on most agriculture products and established a $467 million fund to provide low-cost loans for purchases of farm machinery...
...word of criticism of Nixon. But in his last months in office, Rockefeller demonstrated that his humanitarian instincts were not permanently interred. In succession, he vetoed bills that would have repealed New York's liberal abortion law, prevented busing to achieve racial balance in schools, and prohibited low-cost housing in comfortable Forest Hills...
...whose compassion for the poor earned her an immense following, Perón enthralled the masses with his speeches from the balcony at the Casa Rosada, Argentina's Government House. He followed up his pledges of social change with real reforms: the establishment of a social security system, construction of low-cost housing, wage hikes and the lengthening of workers' vacations, public health programs against tuberculosis, malaria and leprosy, and the encouragement of collective bargaining...
...university buildings like Whig Hall, the contemporary student center built into the burned-out shell of a building at Princeton, as well as private residences and beach houses. Within his profession, however, the North Carolina-born, Yale-educated architect is conspicuous for his innovative approach to high-density housing. "Low-cost housing is a social problem," he says, noting that lack of privacy is the chief shortcoming of most public apartment projects...