Word: program
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Beth Lerch, energy program director at the center, says their opposition to nuclear power is based on moral grounds, and promotes anti-nuke sentiment. The center is directly questioning member churches' reluctance to oppose an industry that produces materials that imperil human lives...
...against Proposition 13 until it passed, whereupon he rode the fiscal austerity wave to such strong conservative applause that he got carried away and started calling for a constitutional convention to balance the budget. He's for cutting defense spending and conserving resources--and for a massive new space program. He's for making corporations more responsive to the public--and he is for abdicating governmental responsibility for physical and mental health, affordable education human services. Only in California...
...campaign has a number of worthy stated goals, including endowment of faculty salaries, building renovations, student financial aid, new junior faculty positions, and the Public Policy program. It would be a shame, though if none of the millions raised from alumni ever makes its way to students in the form of eased tuition increases. Faculty officials say the $120 million or so they will raise to endow faculty salaries and student financial aid will give them much more flexibility in annual budget-making, by freeing money currently restricted to specific uses for whatever purposes Dean Rosovsky and his Faculty budgeters...
...lifting of price controls and the OPEC price hikes--the government's response has been shockingly inadequate. President Carter and Congress are leaving this year's relief effort to the Community Services Administration (CSA). But the $1.2 billion Congress is appropriating for the CSA's Emergency Crisis Assistance program will only provide each family below the poverty line with $400 of aid for the winter, enough to pay one month's heating bill. This unreal level of aid leaves poor people with the macabre choice of whether to freeze in December, January or February...
...cope with the home heating oil crisis should do more than provide woefully insufficient stop-gap measures to help poor people pay their utility bills. It should also be part of a national effort to encourage all Americans, not just the poor to conserve energy. Such a multi-faceted program would include such as measures as the following. The Department of Energy estimates that any homeowner can cut his energy consumption by 25 to 40 per cent with an investment of $60, spent on water flow restrictors for faucets and showers, insulation for water heaters, caulking for doors and windows...