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House and Senate leaders now must redraft a compromise bill, which is expected to be voted on this week...
...Urban Development's first try at a departmental budget and ordered a redraft that knocked out expensive new spending programs. Moreover, Carter pledged that he would try to reduce the role of Government spending in what is now a $2 trillion economy* from about 22% of gross national product next fiscal year to 21% by the time his first term ends in 1981. That is a goal that the most crustily conservative Republican businessman could wholeheartedly endorse, if he happened to believe that the President meant...
Guerrilla warfare against legalese is busting out all over. For example, the Federal Trade Commission has assigned Language Expert Rudolf Flesch, author of several books on plain English, to redraft some ordinarily impenetrable regulations. Joseph Califano has recently hired Barnard College Political Scientist Inez Smith Reid to improve and simplify Health, Education and Welfare Department prose. Among other agency heads arguing for brevity and clarity, Interstate Commerce Commission Chairman Daniel O'Neal last spring issued an exhortation stating: "English is a remarkably clear, flexible and useful language. We should use it in all our communications...
Hall had a statement prepared on time, he said yesterday, but then some other Mass Hall notables got in on the act. Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, took a day or two to redraft Hall's statement, and then Charles U. Daly, vice president for government and community affairs, decided to look it over, according to Hall...
...notion of a new constitutional convention is an intriguing one. After 200 years, why not redraft the charter? These who wrote the first document were not gods, but men. They could not forsee the course that the country would take and they did not expect the republic to produce men like Nixon. From our new perspective, we might write a constitution more conducive to republicanism in the last half of the twentieth century...