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More significantly, there is the everpresent specter of balancing the budget, an absolutely necessary task. But the school lunch program is not the one to cut. It currently serves 25 million children per day. Why take the risk that even one of those kids won't eat today...
...current political climate--hostile to any measure of dependence on the government--serves to reinforce feelings of hostility to those who rely on the public weal. As a result, we've seen the reinvocation of the specter of poor houses and orphanges as the natural, even logical, destination for those who are unable to provide fully or partially for themselves...
...G.O.P. presidential wannabes bundled off to New Hampshire to strut their stuff at a fund raiser. Led by a schmoozy Bob Dole ("I'm a little more realistic, a little more relaxed"), the group, which included Texas Senator Phil Gramm, former Education Secretary Lamar Alexander, Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter, California Congressman Robert Dornan, Conservative commentator Pat Buchanan, Indiana Senator Richard Lugar, former Labor Secretary Lynn Martin and ex-State Department official Alan Keyes, took turns bashing Bill Clinton and trying to distinguish themselves from one another...
...Phil Gramm (R-Texas) is currently the only declared Republican candidate. Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (R-Kan.), former Gov. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), Sen. Richard Lugar(R-Ind.), Rep. Robert Dornan (R-Cal.), commentatorPatrick J. Buchanan, Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Penn.)and former Labor Secretary Lynn Martin will alsolikely vie for the nomination...
Travelers can also go online to get the latest flights and fares from computerized sources like American Airlines' SABRE system. But this again raises the specter of possible bias. The U.S. Transportation Department launched a probe of SABRE and other airline-owned systems last fall after asta and several airlines complained that SABRE favored American's flights. In 1984 the Civil Aeronautics Board ordered major carriers to display flight information in an impartial manner...