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...Government is about fighting inflation. Washington suited a number of actions to Butz's words. The Government announced that it would step up purchase of as much as $100 million worth of pork and beef and store it for use in school lunch programs. Butz himself threatened to recommend "drastic action" against Canada-such as curbing egg imports-unless that nation drops its recent ban on U.S. beef from steers fed a growth hormone that is prohibited there. He also tried to persuade Australia and New Zealand to cut back beef exports to the U.S. That was not enough...
...with dignity." Meaning: the American way of death has become too technological, often condemning a patient to a lingering and painful end in which he is kept artificially alive by a maze of tubes and life-support machines. To prevent such dehumanizing procedures, the advocates of death with dignity recommend that doctors be allowed to cease extraordinary lifesaving efforts when it is clear that the patient is beyond further help. The living are counseled to ease the dying person's final agony by keeping him company during his last hours. This approach to terminal illness (TIME Essay, July...
Last week Treasury Secretary William E. Simon testified to Congress that he favors lifting the 40-year ban on ownership of bullion by U.S. citizens. Nixon already has legal authority to permit Americans to own gold, and Simon said that he hoped to recommend that the President do so "before the end of the year." The prospect may please citizens who find something reassuring about the clunk of bullion in their mattresses, but owning gold is hardly the inflation-proof investment of popular mythology. Indeed, U.S. speculators will discover that the market for gold is as erratic as those...
Guinier called the report's failure to recommend a tie between Afro and the institute a "death-blow...
...most controversial and extended debates the committee faces are expected this fall when the members attempt to hammer out a workable program they can recommend to Bok and Horner. The committee will then have to wrestle with the many problems posed by any increase in the size of Harvard's student body...