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...year-old Job Corps is one of the very few social programs spared by the recent Reagan budget slash. There have been some criticisms about the cost, budgeted for $620 million next year. The total expense for each of the 42,000 trainees who will be enrolled in 1982 ranges from $5,000 to $13,000 a year. But partly because some Job Corps centers are run by private companies, and provide job training for the private sector, the program won support from conservative lawmakers. Says Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, chairman of the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee: "This...
...House and Senate conferees then stayed up all night smoothing out differences between the two versions, and the President could sign the final bill this week. Reagan will also get to put his signature on the other key part of his economic program: a budget that will slash nearly $140 billion in funding for federal programs over the next three years...
...freezer 20° warmer. These days Ben and Jerry keep their machine going without letup, but often in the first months of their proprietorship, they were forced to hang up the dreaded international no-more-ice-cream sign: a red circle containing an ice-cream cone with a slash through...
...allocate the reduced funds among, say, the Meals-on-Wheels program for the housebound elderly, transportation for the disabled and services to victims of child abuse-and even whether to continue some of the programs at all. Generally, mayors and other city leaders fear that state legislatures will slash programs benefiting city dwellers more deeply than those popular with rural and suburban residents. "Big-city school programs are chewed up by Reagan's block-grant concept," says Forrest Rieke, chairman of the Portland, Ore., school board. "It pits us against the downstate interests, and their folks in the legislature...
...untried Herriot attempts to test a bull for fertility. His instrument: a vulcanized rubber tube filled with warm water. The bull, eying a potential mate near by, is in no mood for experiments and furiously charges the young vet: "I met him with a backhanded slash. The elastic came off and the water fountained in the bull's eyes ... I have often wondered since that day if I am the only veterinary surgeon to have used an artificial vagina as a defensive weapon...