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...European holidays on credit cards, so why not let the needy use plastic to buy necessities? By next July welfare recipients in San Francisco will be able to charge everything from food purchases to doctors' bills on a public assistance card, complete with magnetic strip and photograph. City officials predict that the new system, - which will do away with such fixtures of the welfare life as food stamps and triplicate medicaid forms, will save $6 million a year and cut layers of bureaucracy. Though several other states have used welfare credit, San Francisco will be the first to combine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California: Welfare on Plastic | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

Villanova 70, Columbia 3: To be perfectly honest, I don't know a single thing about the Villanova football team. This game is still a lock to predict...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Injuring Harvard's Title Chances | 11/1/1986 | See Source »

...Unless some change is made, we flatly predict a collision [between the two countries]," said Professor of Business Administration Thomas K. McCraw, an economic historian and editor of the book...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B-School Experts Predict U.S.-Japan Trade War | 10/28/1986 | See Source »

...former heroin addict with a long arrest sheet. Sure enough, Garrett's number came up in the million-dollar spin of the California lottery last month, guaranteeing him $40,000 a year for the next 20 years. (The state withheld $200,000 for taxes.) Garrett, however, did not predict the sorry sequel to his story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California: Win Some, Lose Some | 10/13/1986 | See Source »

...once again for more Jewish emigration from the U.S.S.R., reunification of families divided by the Iron Curtain, release of other Soviet dissidents besides Orlov, and less internal repression generally. American experts concede there has been little sign of Soviet give on any of these matters: the best one can predict is a "long, tough discussion." Reagan's advisers are convinced the Soviets do not appreciate how seriously the U.S. takes human rights, and think they need to hear the American position directly from Reagan. With the partial exception of INF, a mere listing of the positions of the two sides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iceland Cometh | 10/13/1986 | See Source »

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