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Spence, who presented the reasons for her decision to the Committee on Housing and Undergraduate Life on Monday, said yesterday that the agreement was intended only as a "stop-gap" measure until the Blodgett pool opened this February. She added insufficient undergraduate use was a factor in her decision...
...real problem with Carter's proposal is that it relies on stop-gap measures that fail to address the underlying causes of the illegal immigrant problem. As long as there are millions of impoverished, frustrated Mexicans, there will be illegal immigration. No law can stop that...
Several students questioned whether the program would have more than short-term stop-gap effects on the employment difficulties of humanities Ph.D.s. Students interested in corporate careers should be discouraged from entering Ph.D. programs and enter business schools instead, they said...
...Senate Finance Committee has already voted 11 to 3 against the use of general tax revenues to shore up the near-bankrupt fund; the House is expected to do the same. In addition, Carter wants to boost payroll taxes for employers alone, but Congress is expected to approve a stop-gap hike in taxes for both employers and employees. Welfare reform is coming under increasing attack from groups that feel threatened by it. Labor, for example, is worried that the creation of 1.4 million public-service jobs at the $2.30 minimum-wage level will have a depressing effect on wage...