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...state party had not honestly tak en affirmative action. Some blacks, whose position was supported by the women's caucus, threatened to walk out of the convention if the rule was not changed to make challenge easier. After some tense bargaining and caucusing, it was changed to tighten the monitoring of affirmative action and remove the burden of proof...
...record foregone here and there hardly constitutes personal deprivation. As a student at Harvard I feel the effects of the present economic crisis about as poignantly as I feel my belt when I tighten it around my waist in the morning. I, together with most undergraduates, diligently keep up on the facts and figures of the deepening recession in this country. We read in the New York Times about the decrease in the average American's purchasing power; we hear on the radio about families in inner cities who eat dog food to survive...
...Europe, America should cut its imports by about twice the percentage the others do. This would impose an equal burden on the economies of all the big oil users. Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey, after returning to London, added that Americans should be made to tighten their belts more than others because they "waste" so much energy. The U.S. so far has balked at the British and German arguments, probably because the American officials fear what a cutback would do to an already weakened economy. Congress would also raise a furor over really strict conservation measures...
Nussbaum also said it was difficult to organize in universities as a result of high turnover rate and non-profit status. "They can always say, 'We have to tighten our belts, universities aren't doing that well this year," she said...
...controls and an easing of federal safety rules on the job. Many farmers demanded a return to subsidies. Builders wanted lower interest rates and more mortgage money. Union leaders called for higher wages and more federal spending to generate jobs. "I've heard a great deal about belt tightening, but the trouble is, everybody wants to tighten someone else's belt," cracks Congressman Thomas S. Foley, a Democrat from Washington State...