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...SSJE is comparatively young, it is related to an ancient monastic tradition. Like Benedictine monks of a thousand years ago, members of the Community live in poverty, chastity, and obedience. The Cambridge monastery operates with the proceeds of a large endowment; its style of life is not uncomfortable. The vow of poverty is now interpreted to mean that community members possess no personal goods, except camera equipment...
Nonetheless, Administration officials vow to keep the guidelines in effect as long as necessary to bring inflation down to an acceptable rate. Since the program aims at reducing the rate by only half a percentage point a year, that could take a very long time. Price increases actually slowed down to a 7% annual rate in the third quarter, a welcome relief from the 11 % pace of the previous three months, but the rate is expected to average around 8% for 1978 as a whole and to be running at about that pace by year...
Still another difficulty involves the wording with which both sides pledge that they will not try to circumvent the terms of the accord. Although such a vow may seem superfluous, the Soviets could try to interpret it in a manner that would impede the transfer of weapon technology by the U.S. to other NATO members...
Worried public officials vow to fight Proposition 13 in the courts if it is ap proved next week. They intend to challenge it on a wide variety of legal grounds, including its possible unconstitutionality. But in hopes of preventing passage, they have also launched a public relations blitz...
...this makes a mockery of Carter's vow to discipline the budget process by requiring each department to justify every dollar in its annual spending request. That approach, known as "zero-based budgeting," is saving little or no money and is simply creating a lot more paper work...