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...Transportation Department received 15 bids for Conrail and last September narrowed the candidates to three: Norfolk Southern, the Alleghany Corp. of New York City and an investor group led by Hotelier J. Willard Marriott Jr. Two weeks ago, all 19 of Conrail's unions voted to recommend the Alleghany bid because the firm promised a more lucrative wage- and-job-protection package...
Nonetheless, Grassley and Kassebaum recommend an outright freeze on military spending as the only way to shock the Pentagon into the "substantive management reforms" that would buy fighting efficiency rather than military fat. Other lawmakers advance the idea of a freeze on viscerally political grounds rather than in the cause of efficiency. Their argument to the White House is in effect: Don't ask us to cut spending on food stamps and Medicare while approving higher outlays for missiles, planes, tanks and guns. If you are going to try to freeze overall spending, well, freeze everything. Then at least...
...rehabilitation clinics like the Roosevelt Institute, PPMA patients are learning how to cope with their recurring symptoms. Many are able to continue most of their ordinary activities with the help of lightweight braces and portable respirators. Institute doctors also recommend that they simply rest more, which enables them to conserve the energy to carry on. This prescription is alien to most of the patients. "Polio survivors are very strong people," says Frederick Maynard, director of the post-polio clinic at the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor. "It goes against their whole approach to life to suddenly take...
...city planning board will also recommend against the proposals as they stand. Both the board and the Cambridge Development Department have voiced concern that the assessment on developers--in the form of housing units--will greatly increase the cost of building in Cambridge and drive potential business away...
This again leads into what the Reverend Jackson did not say. He did not recommend a boycott here in the United States against all corporations doing business with South Africa. Evidently it is one thing to tell Harvard to divest and another thing to ask Americans to divest. That would mean getting rid of toasters, washing machines, radios, television sets, automobiles ad infinitum. It would mean looking for replacements made by companies not involved with South Africa or doing without the items...