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Oddly enough, veterans' groups did not even know that their status was before the courts. Said Bertram Davis, national judge advocate of the American Legion: "We were taken quite by surprise." The lawsuit was filed by Taxation with Representation of Washington, a nonprofit group set up to fight for tax-code reform. The group went to court to win the right to a tax deduction for its own contributors; it had no desire to take the long-standing right away from veterans' organizations...
Since the Pentagon is increasingly interested in high-technology products with narrow military applications, there seems little prospect for productive new civilian and consumer-market spinoffs. In addition, a new report by the Council on Economic Priorities, a nonprofit research group, pointed out last week that the U.S. aerospace industry, which has depended heavily on Air Force contracts, is seeing its position as the world's leading producer of commercial aircraft being slowly but steadily eroded. Meanwhile, Airbus Industrie, a multinational European consortium of planemakers best known for the 270 passenger Airbus A300, is pushing energetically into overseas markets...
These setbacks come as policy feuds within the organization have boiled into the open. In December more than 80% of 160 Newspaper Guild members signed a petition demanding the ouster of Rhoda H. Karpatkin as executive director of Consumers Union, the nonprofit publisher of the magazine. The protesters were incensed over what they considered Karpatkin's shaky financial judgment. Their demand, however, was firmly rebuffed...
...lesser art form, something actors practice while they are waiting for the big break into television or movies. But now, with the enthusiasm of a convert, the city has discovered a secret the Greeks knew 2,500 years ago: there is nothing so exciting as a live performance. The nonprofit Mark Taper Forum has become a showcase for serious, innovative drama; dozens of tiny, off-off-Broadway type theaters have sprung up in the shadow of the freeways; and big Broadway producers have found a huge, hitherto un tapped audience in what they thought was hostile territory. "The whole thing...
Almost all centers have to struggle to make ends meet. Most operate on a nonprofit basis and offer their service on a sliding fee scale according to ability to pay. Few private medical insurance companies will provide coverage, and with only a fraction of patients paying the full cost, the difference usually has to be patched together from a variety of sources, including private donations and United Way. Medicaid money, long a mainstay for nursing homes, is available for day care, but only for health-oriented facilities meeting stringent medical requirements. Some federal funds are also available under Title...