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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kind of vision of a nuclear holocaust destroying Indianapolis. Having read a magazine article listing a selection of the best places in the world to avoid an atomic war, Jones took his wife and three children to one of them, Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Belo Horizonte did not present many opportunities, however, so Jones moved to Rio to teach at the American school there. "Jim was no fanatic," said a woman who befriended him there. "He had no wild streak at all. They were just normal, rather naive and provincial Mid westerners. They led a simple life...
...month. A $60 million, seven-year study conducted by the Stanford Research Institute in Seattle and Denver showed that people in guaranteed annual income programs, the centerpiece of the Carter plan, worked fewer hours than before, and their marriages broke up more frequently than those of persons on the present welfare system. Carter is considering supporting a revised welfare proposal that would not be fully funded until 1982 and would cost $6 billion...
...episode illustrates just why cutting a federal budget is so difficult. Essentially, Harris says she wants about $1.5 billion more than OMB is willing to give her in order to continue subsidized housing construction at close to the present level. OMB objects to her complaint, arguing that what is really pinching HUD's housing money is its plan for a new $1.3 billion demonstration project involving mixed-income rental housing. OMB insists that if that costly project was shelved, HUD would indeed be able to build almost as many new housing units as it says it wants. Whoever...
...waiting until last month to present detailed proposals, management angered the chapels and reduced chances for a settlement by the deadline. "We object to negotiating with a gun to our heads," says one union leader. The National Graphical Association, which represents 600 Times arid Sunday Times compositors, machine managers and stereotypers, is refusing to come to the bargaining table at all. "Only a fool conspires at the destruction of his members' jobs," says Joe Wade, union general secretary. "No trade union leader in any industry can give an ironclad guarantee of continuous production...
...Crimson's relations with its advertisers, and its readers. Because that decision strikes at issues that are central to the paper's role in the Harvard community, and tie in with crucial considerations of journalistic philosophy and ethics, those of us who disagree with it feel obliged to present our objections clearly and openly. Although we cannot oblige Mr. Chan--we cannot run his advertisement--we feel that we should at least address ourselves to the considerable problems that his case has raised...