Word: reporter
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With the hope of forcing candidates to make specific pledges, a commission of 31 higher education leaders, chaired by William C. Friday, President Emeritus of the University of North Carolina, released a comprehensive report in December on the state of higher education in America...
Entitled "A Memorandum to the 41st President of the United States," the report urges the next president to return the federal government to its former close partnership with higher education, provide incentives for research to help restore economic competitiveness, and increase federal grants for student financial...
...Dole (R.-Kan.): The senator wasone of the original sponsors of a savings planbased on the Individual Retirement Account model.He has also advocated selective aid to collegesand universities to support their research, and,along the lines suggested in the FridayCommission's Report, says that the federalgovernment must further enlist universities tohelp restore American competitiveness. Although hesays he supports continued funding for the PellGrant progam and GSLs, he says they must betargeted to those who need them most...
Under Reagan's presidency, fewer dollars headed toward the hungry and homeless. More found their way to the overstocked and the overindulged. A recently-released report by the Congressional Budget Committee admitted as much. Former Reagan Budget Director David Stockman said some time ago that this outcome was no accident...
...real clout. Most AIDS watchers expected that Ronald Reagan's 13-member AIDS panel, with its checkered beginnings and lack of expertise, would be no different. But no one counted on the no-nonsense leadership of retired Navy Admiral James Watkins. In releasing a hard-hitting 60-page report last week, Watkins politely but firmly dismissed the moralistic posturing that has characterized much of the White House's response to the AIDS epidemic and outlined a realistic policy to control the spread of the disease. "We waste a lot of rhetoric and excessive time on a couple of little issues...