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Both the Nutrition Committee and the Special Committee on Aging, however, remained slated for abolition when S. Res. 4 reached the Senate floor. A comparison of the fates of the two committees is useful in understanding how poor people rate in the Senate. The rationale for getting rid of both was similar. Neither committee had legislative authority--that is, any legislation they might find desirable still had to pass through some other Senate committee before it could be considered on the floor. Backers of the reorganization effort reasoned that not only did this lead to a duplication of effort...
...worldwide low level of capital investment. Sluggish global economic growth and new technologies-the building of smaller cars, for example-have reduced worldwide demand for steel and left mills in Europe, Japan and the U.S. with excess capacity. The Europeans and Japanese have been trying to get rid of the surplus steel by selling it in the U.S.-and also to each other; Europeans complain about the Japanese invading their home markets. U.S. steel companies have a special problem: many of their mills are old and inefficient by European and Japanese standards, and they are burdened by high labor costs...
...said his impression is that the management at the station does not want sports coverage. "I'm finally giving them what they want. I'm getting rid of myself," Pearlman said...
...Institutions like U.C. Davis adopted affirmative action programs as a result of intense pressure in the '60s." Smith said. "They feel put upon by these programs, and they want the courts to say, either 'these programs are unconstitutional, get rid of them' or else 'they are constitutional...
...twice. In Ohio, crime in nine agricultural counties has risen 305% since 1963. In Kansas and California, farm machinery is being engraved with identification numbers to discourage gangs of highly organized thieves from stealing and then fencing such heavy booty. Up to now, it has been easy to get rid of a $34,000 bulldozer quickly at a very substantial discount...