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...appropriations bill for Labor and HEW. In one way or another, its varied programs touched the lives of millions of Americans: medical research conducted by the National Institutes of Health; community health services; drug treatment and prevention projects; Head Start, which gives special treatment to poor preschoolers; plans to retrain workers for better jobs. When Ford vetoed the bill on Dec. 19, the Democratic leaders in the House shrewdly decided against any immediate attempt to override. Instead, they mounted their effective attack on wobbly Republicans and conservative Democrats during the long recess. "We unleashed everybody," says Majority Leader Thomas...
...year, but it came at a crucial moment. When drought and famine hit the country in late 1974, the Soviets stepped in quickly and efficiently; within a few weeks they had airlifted 120,000 starving nomads from the parched interior to camps near the coast and provided experts to retrain them as fishermen and farmers. In other states, such as Uganda and Angola, the U.S.S.R. has gained friends by providing military equipment and advisers...
...teaching skills to otherwise "unemployable" people. The Labor Department also should set up the long-discussed computerized "job bank" that would list employment opportunities throughout the nation, and subsidize needy workers who want to move to take distant jobs. In Sweden, the government offers more than 300 courses to retrain the jobless, pays the expenses of an unemployed Swede who travels to look for work, and underwrites his moving bills once he finds a job. The cost is high: more than 5% of the Swedish budget. But the payoff is impressive: Swedish unemployment has consistently been well below that...
...Massachusetts Hall receptionist. Not one of these requests was answered. Later attempts were made to meet with the Advisory Board; these were also refused, DISC representatives communicated with Advisory Board members individually, until this line of communication was cut when Prof. Brimmer asked the members of the Board to retrain from making official statements concerning the workings of the Board...
...Kobysh's description of their interview, Ulam appears tense, unfriendly 9and difficult to communicate with. He is not quoted as saying much--no more, anyway than his interviewer who finds it impossible to "retrain from polemical questions...