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Congress itself, of course, has ample power to check spending through the appropriation process. The House is stymied nonetheless because the Senate is more openhanded with cash than the lower chamber, and most Representatives want to dodge responsibility for retrenching important domestic programs. For its part, the Administration has said that it intends to slice perhaps $2 billion out of the current year's budget-but only after it knows how much Congress is appropriating overall. This is too little, too late and too vague for many House members...
...scientific debate at all. It means lifting in the public eye the status of studies otherwise disqualified and rejected by science." Interpreted one way, such studies apparently suggest that the U.S. Negro is inferior to the U.S. white. On IQ tests, he generally averages 15 to 20 points lower. The results of World War I alpha intelligence tests have frequently been cited as evidence of the Negro's mental inferiority, since the Negro soldier invariably ranked below the white soldier on a state-by-state basis. But the same test results can be used in another way to demonstrate...
...four students said that if the decision to withhold commissions was made on academic grounds (all four received D's), as at first suggested, then the Colonel overlooked two students whose standing was lower than at least one of the four he chose not to commission...
...Coop's refund rate would return to the old ten-eight figure during the Coop's "reconstruction period." He listed the Coop's year-old text book annex on Palmer St. and the new Medical School Coop, scheduled for completion next year, as expense burdens which helped force the lower refund rates...
...This discouraging analysis, however, does not mean that Mrs. Suzman forecasts no change for the future. Instead she predicts that while it may take a great deal of time, a certain amount of integration will be forced on the Afrikaners by economic necessity. When the Africans start moving into lower level professional jobs, it is her hope that there will be some political concessions as well...