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Regarded as an effective advocate of educationissues in his years in Congress, the TennesseeSenator has repeatedly denounced theAdministration's attempts to restrict federalfinancial aid and to shift the bulk of this aidfrom grants to repayable loans for creating a"crisis of access" to the nation's colleges anduniversities...
American law specifies two actions that the President can take. He can ban Japanese fishing vessels from U.S. waters, but that would merely be symbolic, since, for conservation reasons, the Japanese do not currently have American fishing rights. An alternative would be to restrict imports of Japanese fish products, which amount to more than $300 million annually. That could backfire, however, since Japan might retaliate against fish imports from the U.S. worth some $1.4 billion a year...
...former Federal Judge William S. Sessions, simply inherited these investigations from Webster and cannot be held responsible. Nonetheless, he must be careful not to engage in such intrusive, unconscionable activities. For their part, the American people must be careful not to allow another Hoover to gain the power to restrict their freedoms. The FBI is a public organization designed to protect the American people, not a secretive KGB designed to protect the government...
...insurance regulators are eager to supervise car-rental firms, they have been unable to do so. Reason: courts have ruled that the rental-agency coverage for collision, injury and property losses is not a form of insurance in the traditional sense. But states are beginning to enact laws to restrict the industry's questionable sales practices. And last May, Minnesota passed a law that required all auto insurance sold in the state to cover the owner for rental...
...Chicago Mercantile Exchange, which handles trading in stock-index futures, proposed new daily limits on how far the price of a futures contract should be permitted to swing, and called for greater coordination between the stock and futures markets. At the New York Stock Exchange, directors voted to restrict futures-based program trading on the Big Board whenever the Dow Jones industrial average rises or falls 50 points or more in a day. At this rate, the markets may put houses in order even before the regulators...