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...Needless to say, proposed increases in federal funding have not gone unchallenged. Familiar arguments about the cultural elitism of public television have been dredged up. "When working-class Americans are being pitched off Amtrak passenger trains to save a few bucks," notes former White House speechwriter Pat Buchanan, "it approaches the obscene to demand that taxpayers triple their subsidy to this playpen of the penthouse proletariat." Never one for subtlety, James J. Kilpatrick says he "sees no reason on God's green earth for taking the taxpayer's money in order to nuture those happy hotdogs of the intellectual left...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: A Little Too Scalpel Happy | 3/9/1979 | See Source »

When President Carter's Civil Service Reform Act finally passed, I asked a few of the oldtimers if they expected it to have any impact. Needless to say, they didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Making of A Bureaucrat | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

...Needless to say, anything that promotes warmth is good," she added...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Nurse Explains Winter Danger Of Frostbite | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

...tunnel is scheduled to go from Harvard Square to Porter Square. Needless to say, that's a lot of dirt...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Digging In | 2/3/1979 | See Source »

...Needless to say, we are not happy that improprieties were found," Thomas O'Brien, financial vice president, said last week. But he added that procedures have nonetheless improved since the 1976 fiasco...

Author: By Susan D. Chira, | Title: The $6000 Question | 1/24/1979 | See Source »

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