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With consumer prices climbing, politicians belatedly have begun thumping the tub to squeeze out wasteful and excessive Government spending. Yet when it comes to cutting specific programs that benefit their own constituents, most lawmakers run for cover. One egregious case: Impact Aid, an ever expanding relic of the 1940s. Almost everyone in Washington agrees that it should be sharply reduced, but Congress is moving to expand it, adding well over $200 million in needless expenditures to next year's projected budget deficit of $48.5 billion. Having examined the tangled story of Impact Aid, TIME Washington Economic Correspondent George Taber filed...
...other Justices to reach a decision in the case, he expressed it all the more passionately in his separate opinion. He wrote that he would "yield to no one in my earnest hope that the time will come when an affirmative-action program is unnecessary and is only a relic of the past." But the slow pace of desegregation after Brown vs. Board of Education had convinced him that his hope is a "slim" one. He thought it was ironic that the injection of race into university admissions could cause such a disturbance, when preferences have always been given...
...agencies, hotel and motel chains and their restaurants. But as the tourists travel within the U.S., they deal more with small businesses and entrepreneurs: Mom and Pop diners, souvenir shops, camping guides, local gas stations. Foreign spending can be a bonanza. Miami Beach's Fontainebleau Hotel, a rococo relic of past prestige, came back from the brink of bankruptcy by becoming a mecca for overseas tourists who still associate it with glamour and bathing beauties. Tony Alonzo, a Cuban refugee who opened a small store in Miami in 1965, has built a million-dollar business by supplying Latin visitors...
...concluded that Gray and two of his high-ranking assistants, W. Mark Felt and Edward S. Miller, had authorized the unlawful surveillance activities; and the Criminal Division in the department elected to proceed with the prosecution of the three principals with the full approval of President Carter. Yet another relic from the Watergate era had bitten the dust, offering some cause for reassurance that the blindfold of Justice was back in place--at least at first glance...
Proponents of the Constitution dismiss the idea of a student union as a romantic relic of '60s fervor. They are wrong. The student union approach is the most realistic and pragmatic way students can affect Harvard's cold, corporate decisions. It guarantees the most widespread mobilization of student opinions and pressure on the larger issues, and it focuses student influence in the Houses, dorms and departments, all of which the Constitution overlooks. The student union idea concentrates on the power realities at Harvard, not on sandboxes and soapboxes...