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...great influx? Fresno, so proudly un-Californian in the past, is one of the few places in the state that have not already reached a choke-off point for high prices, pollution, crime or the fear of those things. The city is growing by fleeing itself -- in developments rising, tier on tier, northward toward the banks of the San Joaquin River. A local columnist calls those living in the posh new homes "branch and chain people": executives for the local branch of whatever banks, credit companies, insurance firms are represented here. Yet even less affluent people are selling medium-size...
Harvard received 17 out of a possible 20 points, placing it in the third tier of national campuses in terms of beauty...
...best solution may be a two-tier system: the republics would raise territorial defense units that would be subject to Moscow's authority only in a crisis and only with the consent of the republics' parliaments, while the confederation would form an army of its own composed of decently paid volunteers from all over. Only that body would have weapons of mass destruction. That way, when the process of transformation now under way is complete, we can be assured that there will still be only one nuclear power on the land mass that is today the U.S.S.R...
...Governor gripes that his state has become a "welfare magnet" for out- of-state poor because Wisconsin -- despite a reduction of AFDC outlays of 6% to fund Thompson's reforms -- has some of the highest benefits in the nation. In 1989 he proposed a two-tier system that would peg newcomers' benefits to those in their home states during their first six months of Wisconsin residency. Advocates for the poor challenge the legality of the double-barreled scheme, pointing out that the Supreme Court banned residency requirements for welfare benefits...
Thompson's most radical proposals have not yet got off the ground. Last month the Democratic-controlled state legislature rejected the Governor's bid to expand Learnfare by applying it to children as young as six. Wisconsin lawmakers have similarly voted down the two-tier benefits system and weakened the Bridefare plan. Undeterred, Thompson announced last week that he would push for a Federal Government waiver that would allow for a modified version of Bridefare...