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...fast-growing $30 billion Medicaid program, which benefits some 22 million poor people. In return, the states would take over the full burden of the nation's basic welfare program, Aid to Families with Dependent Children, which costs about $13 billion a year, and pick up the entire tab for the $ 11 billion food stamp program...
...bill introduced last December in the House by Democrat Thomas Luken of Ohio. The legislation does not give in to industry demands for an easing of "primary" air-quality standards, which would directly affect the health of Americans. And in spite of business's claims that the tab for cleaner ah-has been reduced productivity, the new bill does not go along with a demand that additional antipollution measures be subjected to cost-benefit analyses. Such tests would try to determine whether the extra benefits to society derived from, say, putting smokestack "scrubbers" on coal-burning plants are really...
...Nixon years, items which he seems to think are "inside information." Do you know that Bebe Rebozo was "Nixon's source of undemanding mental relaxation"? Do you know that "Pat Nixon grew in her role as First Lady"? Do you know that Tricia Nixon once stuck Ehrlichman with the tab for lunch"? Do you care? And when Ehrlichman's narrative does occasionally touch on an illuminating point--like when he mentions that Nixon and Colson attempted to coerce network television executives to procure more favorable coverage--it is rarely developed beyond mere mention...
Smart also used the graduate's charge account number yesterday at the Coop, where he ran up a $100 tab...
...President gave a preview of his argument last week in a speech to civic and business leaders in New York City. "Yes, we are in a recession," Reagan said. "Our Administration is cleanup crew for those who went on a nonstop [spending] binge and left the tab for us to pick...