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...modest $14 million experiment to help low-income families buy a "nutritionally adequate diet," has been a lifesaver for millions of destitute Americans. But it has also helped the not so destitute. In recent years the program has grown to astonishing size, in part because its slack eligibility requirements enable even moderately well-off people to qualify and make policing difficult. The system now subsidizes 19 million people, one out of every eleven Americans. Working families receiving stamps outnumber welfare households 55% to 45%. Conservatives, with Treasury Secretary William Simon in the fore, have attacked the system as a welfare...
...cameras so as to make his locks bounce as he slid into third. To me his shorn head will always be the symbol of baseball's bad side. Hell, I'm not asking for a Ted Simmons or even an Oscar "High Hat" Gamble -- but Pete, cut us some slack. Let it grow...
...first two months I studied constantly. I'd been going full steam and getting B+s. The first thing I did was slack off on my work. My grades in Soc Sci 2 slowly dropped down...
...crop years; it might be cut in half during 1976-77. Still, no major shortage looks likely. Brazil has reserves of 21 million bags that could be sold to keep exports close to normal levels over the next three years, until newly planted trees yield a crop. Any slack could be taken up by other producers, primarily in Colombia, who will benefit greatly from the higher prices. Those prices may enable Brazil to earn $500 million more on coffee sales in the next twelve months than it would have if there had been no frost...
...annual rate of consumer price inflation has declined sharply, from 12.2% last year to an average of 5% from March through May. Price rises should continue to be fairly moderate-in the 4% to 6% range for the rest of this year and next year -because so much slack will still remain in the economy. With production running well below capacity, businessmen will be reluctant to post egregious price increases; with unemployment sticking high, few union leaders will cry for outrageous wage rises...