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...record books, the score of last week's competition among House Democrats will have to read Aging Conservatives 4, Youngish Reformers 0. The oldsters in the party caucus defeated several moves: to 1) set an age limit of 70 for committee chairmen; 2) restrict them to eight years of service; 3) elect a Northern liberal instead of a Southern conservative to the Ways and Means Committee; 4) oust one incumbent chairman. Yet the ferment itself indicated the changing tone in the tradition-minded House of Representatives; the seniority system is no longer sacrosanct...
...emigrate to Israel, "that could come close to ruining us, sociologically and financially." That is a remote prospect, of course, but even if it were an imminent one Peled insists he would not be unduly concerned. "We will fight the problems," he says. "Under no circumstances will we restrict the numbers...
...argument has long smoldered in Wall Street over the tight rules that restrict membership in the clubby New York Stock Exchange. Mutual funds, insurance companies and other institutional investors cannot join. Naturally they are resentful because they 1) account for well over half the trading volume on the exchange, and 2) pay some $800 million a year in commissions to member brokers on their trading. The institutions have become all the more displeased because brokerage houses in recent years have started their own mutual funds and now have about 70 of them. The brokerages collect commissions when they...
...Food and Drug Administration jumped into a medical dispute this fall when it warned doctors to restrict their use of tolbutamide, an orally administered antidiabetes drug. Now the dispute has grown into an angry battle. Meeting recently in Boston, 34 of the nation's leading diabetologists joined forces to denounce the FDA warning and question the study upon which it was based...
...Faculty also adopted a motion setting guidelines for accepting outside research grants. While specifically barring the University from accepting classified research, the statement does not restrict the outside activities of individual Faculty members...