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...poetry, glitters with wit and erudite tomfoolery. Its 44 poems turn the act of puckering up into cerebrations whimsical and sensuous: "A poem: most like a kiss. A play of shapes/ that search, researching over the perfect shape/ to stop the mo-ment-in-time and stamp it: This...
...which benefits some 22 million poor people. In return, the states would take over the full burden of the nation's basic welfare program, Aid to Families with Dependent Children, which costs about $13 billion a year, and pick up the entire tab for the $ 11 billion food stamp program...
...Governors had no quarrel with Washington's willingness to finance all of Medicaid, but, by a vote of 36 to 5, they rejected the idea that the states should assume the AFDC and food stamp burden. This was in keeping with the traditional position of the National Governors Association that income-support programs for the poor are logically a national responsibility. Instead, the Governors offered to accept as state responsibilities a wide variety of other programs, including education, transportation, child nutrition and criminal justice. Total cost of those programs: about $31 billion...
...African regime. Soon after, Citibank dispatched a representative to consult with the Corporation and lobby University officials to relax their present policy. The Corporation responded by applying pressure on the ACSR to approve the repeal of the 1978 concession, but the ACSR proved itself more than an ornamental rubber-stamp and voted down the proposal in May 1981. The ACSR majority concluded that the University had made a commitment and must honor...
Reagan's decision to give up AFDC and food stamp programs, which he has criticized as being vastly abused, while retaining Medicaid, in which abuses are more likely to be committed by doctors who overtreat and overprescribe than by the indigent ill, angers some state officials. Says Gerald M. Thornton, director of social services for North Carolina's Forsyth County: "He wants to take Medicaid, a respectable program, and give us food stamps, a program that's so unpopular that a person who gets stamps might as well be wearing tattoos. That's like getting...