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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gauging A.E.I.'s influence is difficult, as the institute concentrates on trying to develop conservative economic and political ideas, and rarely takes a formal position on particular measures. But institute members can point to some specific successes. Sharp criticism by Murray Weidenbaum, an A.E.I. fellow and member of TIME'S Board of Economists, helped kill a 1975 proposal by then Vice President Nelson Rockefeller to pour $100 billion of federal money into an emergency energy program. Earlier this year the institute insistently pointed out what it saw as the bureaucratic dangers of the proposed Agency for Consumer Advocacy...
...committee. "Once and for all, we're going to settle this issue. We're going to get to the bottom of the Lance affair." Adds an aide to Republican Senator William Roth of Delaware, "Bert's avuncular, easygoing style won't wash this time." Three particular areas of Lance's testimony from previous hearings interest the committee...
...stately home with her diamond ring before running off to the Spanish Civil War at the age of 19 with a nephew of Sir Winston Churchill's. In A Fine Old Conflict, a sequel to her earlier memoir, Daughters and Rebels, Decca promises to explain why she in particular and Mitford sisters in general have behaved so-well, Mitfordly...
Critics complain that the film shows too much of Hitler's appeal, too little of its consequences. Jews in particular protest that it skims over the horrors of Nazism while dwelling mainly on Hitler as the hypnotic spellbinder who wooed millions of Germans into a criminal war. Says Werner Nachman, chairman of West Germany's Jewish Central Committee: "The younger generation is being shown a Hitler that does not tell them who he really was." Karl-Heinz Janssen, a member of the editorial board of the weekly Die Zeit, says flatly that "the film is dangerous," arguing that...
Since Blue Cross annually pays hospitals $13 billion for services rendered to its members, the threat to withhold payments unless the agreed-upon cost standards and procedures are met could be powerful. But whether the ambitious plan will work depends a good deal on whether or not the particular insurance company, using its own teams as well as already existing medical monitoring systems, can actually wrestle the medica. bureaucracy into line, set cost standards and avoid budget padding...