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...currently has one of the toughest licensing laws of any state in the country. The law requires a license for the possession of all firearms and automatically imposes a mandatory one-year prison sentence for carrying a gun without a license. In 1976, a state-wide referendum calling for stricter regulations failed by more than a two-to-one margin...
...undergraduate in Harvard College who feels he or she has been subjected to discrimination" should contact his or her senior tutor. Orr said this statement is not sufficient. "The only place where sexual harassment is defined is in the personnel manual, because the labor law--Title VII--is much stricter," she added...
Lewis said these limitations represent a reevaluation by the State Department of even stricter restrictions that were proposed initially in January. Stanford refused to comply with the first set of restrictions, which according to Lewis contained stipulations that one "couldn't enforce," prompting the State Department to reconsider its position...
...Work-Study plan. The largest program is Guaranteed Student Loans (GSL), which provides $7.7 billion to 3.5 million students (52% more than last year's number), many from families earning much more than $30,000 a year. Under Reagan's proposed budget, GSLs would require a far stricter determination of student need and a higher interest (the going commercial rate vs. a fixed 9%). Graduate students would not be eligible for GSLs at all, but could take out high-interest auxiliary loans. The Government also plans to cut Pell Grants by 40%, reduce Work-Study and do away...
...President Carter's Attorney General, Benjamin Civiletti, then insisted on a stricter interpretation of the law, which forbids unauthorized expenditures. While Civiletti's "opinion" did not legally bind Reagan, the President took it seriously enough to have his Office of Management and Budget draft contingency plans. So, apparently, did Congress. Well in advance of the deadline, it authorized one branch of Government to continue functioning, and with a spending increase: itself...