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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week's end sources close to the Crown were whispering that Margaret had decided not to relinquish her regal duties, in order to keep her regal perks. Thus the burning question was whether or not she would relinquish Roddy, in the face of public criticism. Chances were that the answer would be no. The princess, after all, had family precedent on her side. When her great-grandfather King Edward VII was Prince of Wales, he had numerous well-publicized liaisons while he waited for Queen Victoria to surrender the throne...
...been arguing that anything the President might do about inflation would offend powerful constituencies. Nonetheless, the speech would probably be no bombshell. Rather than outline a comprehensive, drastic policy, Carter was expected to announce a series of small but symbolic, and concrete, steps that the Government would take in order to set an example of anti-inflationary restraint for the rest of the nation. Some probable highlights of the talk: > A pledge to hold the federal budget for fiscal 1979 within the targeted $60 billion range. That would at least imply a threat to veto any spending bill that seems...
...efforts contribute to inflation by raising industries' costs, and a pledge to change. Carter is considering several regulatory reforms suggested by Barry Bosworth, head of the Council on Wage and Price Stability (see box), including the opening of more federally owned timberland to cutting by private companies in order to increase the supplies of lumber and thereby hold down those prices...
...Faculty voted on December 13 to open the five limited concentrations by increasing enrollment by 20 per cent each year, in order to avoid suddenly over-burdening their teaching staffs...
...hoped that people "benefit by this preview of an astonishing development whose time, at least in terms of some of the emotional and ethical issues it raises, has apparently not quite yet come." It is conceivable that Rorvik contrived his story, or at least fudged the end result in order to shock readers into dealing with the issues raised by genetic engineering, such as cloning and recombinant DNA work...