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Jonathan is one of 264,000 low-income, disabled children nationwide whose Supplemental Security Income benefits, averaging $424 a month, are being reviewed for possible termination. The reviews are being conducted under new rules, adopted in last year's overhaul of the welfare system, that significantly tighten the program's definition of disability. So far, 42% of children whose cases have been reviewed under the new rules nationally have been found ineligible; some started losing benefits last week. Jonathan's review ended with a request for him to submit further evidence of his disability--a sign, his mother fears, that...
Technology is helping. Bell says his trucks need an overhaul only every 1 million miles instead of 300,000. They need an oil change every 30,000 miles instead of 10,000. In 1979 many trucks got 4 m.p.g.; now they average 7. Computers allow more timely, efficient service...
Five months later, the Advocate Executive Board, led by President Daley C. Haggar '98 and Publisher Charles C. Savage '98, succeeded in resolving these issues by a complete overhaul of the literary organization...
...Reform" was the catch-word on every Undergraduate Council member's lips, but attempts to overhaul the often-maligned council this year met with only partial success...
...spring, the council created an extra-council committee of students to give the council major structural overhaul. However, the committee's high hopes for dramatic change fell flat when most of the extensive reforms failed to pass by the end of the year...