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...compromise gave the armed forces "more than we actually need" and cut back on "those very things [social spending] that would prevent recession from getting out of hand." White House aides urged the House to vote down the budget resolution and send it back to conference with instructions to trim military spending and put the difference into job-training programs, food stamps and aid to transit and cities...
...much as two-thirds in hopes of reducing high blood pressure, especially among those people susceptible to this life-threatening disorder. Despite the physical-fitness boom, the board emphasized the need for even more exercise as a way of burning up excess calories, curbing appetite and staying in trim. Finally, the panel advised Americans to limit their consumption of alcohol, a source of nutritionally "empty" calories, to no more than the equivalent of three mixed drinks...
...Carter enthusiastically penned the legislation into law--and picked up the NEA endorsement for 1980--some observers wondered what field Carter, who promised to trim down the bureaucracy when he came to Washington in 1976, would look to next...
Unfortunately, the budget balancing act was accomplished only through two highly questionable maneuvers. First, to hold down spending, the House budget resolution directed 16 congressional committees to trim a total of $9 billion from Government programs. The chairmen of the committees opposed the move, arguing that it infringed on their traditional authority. Said Interior Committee Chair man Morris Udall of Arizona: "This is a grab for power...
...board of an international union." Some rank-and-file members of Eraser's own union remain suspicious about his getting too close to management. "I'm afraid it's a sellout," said Maye Lean Amos, a sewing-machine operator at Chrysler's Detroit auto-trim plant. Some union leaders meeting in Washington last week for their regular spring session were sympathetic to the "special circumstances" of Eraser's appointment. But most supported AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland, who says that workers are best represented "through the collective bargaining process and the adversary system that...