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...chairman of the House Budget Committee, introduced a bill that would require the President to submit a balanced budget by Oct. 1 of each year, the start of the Government's fiscal year. By no coincidence, that is just before the November balloting. The President would have to pinpoint the programs he would cut or the revenues he would raise to avoid a deficit...
...Like cruise missiles," replied Weinberger, referring to the small, jet-powered drones that can duck under enemy radar and deliver nuclear weapons with pinpoint accuracy...
...hard to pinpoint a legacy. Certainly, a few members of Lionel broke away from the group. While 10 members went to Dunster House and three to Currier, several left all Lionel people and took off for other Houses with other roommates. But even those who did so did not necessarily leave Lionel behind. Rich, who left his Lionel roommates and went to Leverett House recalls that he "regretted it partly sophomore year. You really got close to people freshman year...
...problem. Davila says, is the decentralized nature of the University. Verba can pinpoint problems and make suggestions on how to improve teaching, but he really just cannot tell departments or professors how to run their courses. "If individual professors don't want to listen they don't have to," she says, adding. "We see a lot of improvement, but every year we seem to talk about the quality of sections. Yes, you do all the studies but you don't have much impact--I don't really feel that section leader quality has improved that much...
Senator Edward Kennedy called the Administration's record on issues affecting civil rights, women and the poor "a disgrace" and charged that Meese was "a key architect" of these policies. Kennedy tried to pinpoint Meese's role in the controversial 1982 Justice Department decision to reverse more than a decade of federal antidiscrimination policy and permit Bob Jones University of Greenville, S.C., to gain tax-exempt status, although the private school had a policy of racial segregation. In the outcry after the turnabout, Reagan claimed unpersuasively that he had merely wanted to make certain that the Internal Revenue...