Word: numbers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHEN IT COMES to welfare, not all poor people are considered equal. Depending on the state in which they live, poor families with the same number of children receive welfare payments that vary by as much as several hundred dollars a year. But finally, after two years of paring down President Carter's extensive welfare reform package, the House last week took a small but welcomed first step to alleviate the inequalities of our present, non-federalized welfare system...
Keenan said there is no limit to the number of lectures the committee will sponsor in a given year. "We have a whole list of people who seem to be outstanding, "but there may be a problem scheduling all of them, he said...
With Eichner out; number three Buck Logan suffering from the flu or a bad cold; and John Murphy, the Crimson's number one man for the second half of the season, severely hampered by tendonitis in his left knee; Harvard, in effect, ran without its three top runners...
Into the third mile, the fight for number one was down to Treacy and Bickford, while Providence already had wrapped up the team victory; but Harvard held solid team position in relation to Boston University and the rest of the field. Then the problems started...
...issues--Kennedy from his 17 years in the Senate, and Carter from his years as President. The candidates and the press have a responsibility to rescue this campaign from the muck and to present voters with a clear choice. Contrary to popular misconception, Carter and Kennedy differ on a number of critical issues--inflation, energy, health care, defense spending and political control of corporate power, for example. These differences and others should be systematically explored in the coming months...