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...first attack, before parents are aware of the need for medical help. Most discouraging, apnea is almost certainly not the sole cause of SIDS (one Boston specialist puts the incidence rate at anywhere from 5% to 90% of all SIDS cases), so the alarm can only be a stopgap measure. But it should at least cut the infant death toll...
Clearly, Question 1 is a stopgap. No politician is going to call for an income tax, even though Republican gubernatorial candidate Frank Hatch '46 voted for the 1975 measure. Only when the King/Hatch campaign schemes for tax relief prove cosmetic, drippy lip gloss for the sore mouths and worn wallets of Massachusetts homeowners, will there exist even the possibility of genuine tax reform...
...stopgap solution was to parcel out $5 billion of an estimated $5.8 billion surplus in state revenues to more than 6,000 local government units. The schools will get the biggest chunk of the fund, $2.2 billion. That will mean only a 10.5% overall cut in their operating cash from current levels. The relief money will be applied on a sliding scale so districts that have long had less money for schools will get the most. This will help meet a California Supreme Court decision that support of schools should be equalized...
Short of coming up with cows that breed as fast as battery hens, there is little that the Government can do to ease the fluctuations of the ten-year beef production cycle. One stopgap measure that President Carter is now considering would be to relax import restrictions on foreign beef in order to increase supplies at meat counters. Since there is presently no world surplus of beef anyhow, lifting restrictions would probably bring in no more than 250 million Ibs. of beef on top of the 1.3 billion Ibs. that the nation already imports from Australia, New Zealand, Canada...
...jobs, such as playground supervisors or road crew laborers. CETA funding has doubled during the Carter presidency, to more than $11 billion budgeted for fiscal 1979, and the number of jobs to be filled has leaped from 310,000 to 725,000. The program, however, is at best a stopgap substitute for welfare. It takes the jobless off the streets but does not prepare them for permanent employment. Says Bernard Anderson, an economist at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School: "Most of the money has been spent on Job Corps-type programs of scraping graffiti off telephone poles...