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Simon said that if any aspect of the federal code is rescinded, schools like Harvard might be encouraged to ease their efforts to maintain affirmative action programs. "What we fear is throwing the baby out with the bath water," Simon said. "If they want to redesign reporting forms, they should do that, not withdraw substantive guarantees of federal supervision...
L.B.J. might have appreciated the upstart actor turned politician. Some indestructible core of optimism that was forged in the mad '20s and the Great Depression surged in Johnson, as it does in Reagan. One night Johnson ordered his aide Richard Goodwin to redesign the U.S. to abolish disease, ignorance and poverty. Goodwin wrote it out on his Smith-Corona, and Johnson gave it voice at the University of Michigan stadium. Reagan was a bit more in scale than the flamboyant Texan last week, but his people in his arena, a joint session of Congress, cheered and whistled...
Fortunately, none of the obstacles that Bose mentions may be insurmountable. Substantial portions of the bike routes mapped out in the 1975 proposal are on Harvard's property. Moreover, the current construction in the Square affords an opportunity to widen or redesign several major streets to include bicycle lanes. And if the University is willing to hire several full-time policemen to keep bicyclists from entering the Yard, it ought to be willing to make a substantial investment in bicycle paths...
...corporate miscreants with a vigor that would have made her proud. It has linked Bechtel Corp. with the CIA (a charge denied by the company), exposed the dangers of the Dalkon Shield intrauterine contraceptive device, and in 1977 was the first publication to allege that Ford chose not to redesign a faulty fuel system in its 1971-76 Pintos. Just four years old, Mother Jones won its third National Magazine Award in April for a story about how products banned in the U.S. as unsafe are being sold in underdeveloped countries...
When Riccardo took over in 1975, the public was demanding smaller, more fuel-efficient cars, but Chrysler, unlike GM and Ford, lacked the money to retool and redesign quickly. With smaller sales than the other two automakers, Chrysler had to spend nearly twice as much per vehicle to meet Government rules. Pressed for cash, the company had to slash its budget for plant modernization...