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...loudest laments about the budget are coming from the cities and states. The President would entirely eliminate federal revenue sharing, forcing state and local governments to assume greater responsibility and power, a guiding tenet of the Administration's philosophy since its earliest days. The end of the 13-year-old program of revenue sharing would save $3.5 billion. According to Governors and state legislators, the death of revenue sharing would wound states and localities where they can least afford it, in basic outlays for such services as police, education and sanitation. Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, whose state...
That same ideal, despite its departure from ideology, has been stated more and more openly by officials in Peking since the reforms. They are also down-playing another Communist tenet, central control of factories. "In the past, we used to be a mother-in-law, and we relied on 'patriarchal dignity' to direct enterprises," says Deputy Premier Tian Jiyun. "Now we must get off our high horse and become just a simple 'attendant...
...issue is the right to analyze and even criticize government policy, a fundamental tenet of democracy. The Reaganites are against...
...take genuine pleasure in the culture of the majority. Many Jews enjoy the Christmas season for its songs and geniality, without feeling put upon to convert or run and hide. Buddhists may dye Easter eggs. Things inevitably get tense whenever a minority seeks to hold on to some cultural tenet that goes against the American grain (e.g., Mormons and polygamy), but in less extreme cases the tension works out to a compromise. Those who make concessions to the majority culture may be scorned as Uncle Toms or assimilationists, yet accommodation does not necessarily entail a loss of integrity or self...
...study based upon the race of the victim. Among Black offenders in Texas, for example, those whose victims were white were 87 times more likely to receive a death sentence than those whose victims were Black. From all this, according to Bowers and Pierce, emerges "a single underlying racist tenet: that white lives are worth more than Black lives...