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...million Americans, 11.6% of the population, lived below the poverty line in 1986. Previous computations placed the number of impoverished at 32.4 million. The study found Social Security more effective than the tax system and need-based welfare programs in lifting Americans out of poverty. This will doubtless strengthen Social Security's resistance to the budget...
...Duke University, thought he had seen them all. The eager ones. The teary ones. The ones who would do anything to get into the college of their choice. But last year a member of his staff ran across a genuine original. "Is there anything else I can do to strengthen my case?" Jennifer Tangora, a high school senior, inquired at the end of her interview. The admissions officer looked over her application, which was crammed with high grades, solid recommendations and documented achievements. "Seems to me the only thing you haven't done is paint your room Duke blue...
Sollors says the agenda for Harvard's Afro-Am Department is straightforward for the next few years: to hire a musicologist to replace Eileen Southern, professor of music emeritus, to find social scientists and finally, to strengthen the study of history and literature...
...must strengthen our effort to learn foreign languages. This must begin in our schools...
...flooded in; as a result, 58 out of 117 proposed clauses in the package of constitutional amendments and election laws were modified. Leading the legal revolt was the Baltic republic of Estonia, where the push for political reform has gone the furthest. Estonians feared that the new system would strengthen the authority of the central government and hamper efforts to achieve greater regional autonomy. In an unprecedented challenge to Moscow, the Estonian parliament rejected the constitutional amendments last month and passed a declaration of "national sovereignty." Ethnic Russians, he said, wanted to know "how this could happen to our brothers...