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...Gerald Ford's veto. Congress in 1974 amended the law, which now sets deadlines for responding, bans excessive copying fees for documents, and provides that winners of Freedom of Information court cases should have their legal fees paid for by the Government. Attorney General Griffin Bell applied another spur to information seekers last May, when he warned all Government agencies that his department would not defend them in court fights to preserve secrecy unless disclosure was "demonstrably harmful, even if the documents technically fall within the exemptions...
Edgar Johnson's two-volume biography, published in 1952, was the first long, authoritative look at Dickens' life in 80 years; it revived scholarly interest in the once derided Victorian novelist and helped spur what has now become an avalanche of academic criticism. Through it all, common readers have simply remained enchanted by Dickens' indestructible magic. Johnson's new abridgment of his biography, judiciously cut in half and stripped of footnotes and other such paraphernalia, is intended especially for them...
This team is much more talented than it appeared Saturday night. With a little luck, a loss like this one can be used as a spur to bring out the extra hustle needed to win. The next game is Monday night at Fitchburg State...
...alone would cost $36.5 million. The Bureau of Reclamation has petitioned for funding, and the OMB is expected to act on the request later this month. But it is up to Congress, not the Executive Branch, to provide the money to confront the problem adequately. With another disaster to spur his colleagues to action, Idaho's Senator James McClure plans to resubmit two dam-safety bills that were introduced, unsuccessfully, after the Teton Dam collapse. Said McClure's home-state Senate partner Frank Church: "We have got to move urgently to watch over these dams, rebuild them...
...early 1960s and reaches for the same magic solution: "bold" tax cuts. After all, the Kennedy-Johnson tax cut of 1964 ushered in the fondly remembered boom of the middle and late '60s. Why not try again? Burns urges reductions for individuals and corporations and, to spur business spending on plant and equipment, liberalized tax depreciation rules and a higher investment tax credit than the current...