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...million for new military family housing in West Germany, the first such allocation since World War II. The housing-maintenance budget available for military families has also risen, from $300 million in 1980 to $550 million this year. As a result, the number of military families living in substandard dwellings has been cut by more than half, to about...
...case can be made, however, that the situation is not really intolerable. Some illegal immigrants undoubtedly take work away from U.S. citizens, but many others accept necessary jobs-as janitors, busboys, farm laborers-that hardly anyone else wants. If their wages and living conditions seem substandard to many Americans, they are sufficiently better than those available in the aliens' homelands so that the immigrants keep coming, in numbers that even police-state controls would be hard put to stop. Indeed, to the extent that Simpson-Mazzoli succeeds in slowing the stream, it might replace one problem with another...
Some of the clothes are authentic military issue, sold as surplus or as substandard in some way. But increasingly they consist of commercially made imitations, usually cheaper than the real McCoy but not as durable. Most popular is the so-called Woodland pattern, one of two camouflage styles, along with Desert, currently being worn by U.S. troops in the field. The relatively low price (as little as $13 for a commercial knockoff of four-pocket pants, one of the hottest sellers; from $23 to $30 for the Government version) and the antichic chic have obvious attractions. Robin Figaro...
...transit projects are on track, however. The initial elevenmile stretch of Metrorail, Miami's elevated railway, was scheduled to open in time to whisk Christmas shoppers to downtown Miami. Now the big day has been postponed until spring. Two federal investigative teams turned up substandard construction work in the nearly $1 billion system, which is almost 70% funded by Washington. Because of a lengthy strike at the supplier, the Budd Co., only 20 of Metrorail's planned fleet of 136 cars are ready for service. "We're not going to accept this thing until...
...have seldom seen Protestants, and Dutch prelates who pray with them almost daily; U.S. cardinals whose most pressing concern is a multimillion-dollar building fund, and Asian missionaries whose church is a Quonset hut. Methodist Observer Albert C. Outler of Texas says that "several of the declarations are substandard; several are no better than mediocre...