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...involved it in a task more typical of the Business School. Led by Robert Ebert, dean of the school, and Jerome Pollack, an experienced medical administrator from New York, the Med School planners are working on a scheme that may offer American medicine a way out of its current welter of ills...
Outside his home ground, Zapata was frequently regarded as an obstinate savage by the succession of national leaders who rose and fell in the bloody welter of an inconclusive revolution. What he and his people wanted was set down with forceful simplicity in the Plan de Ayala, the catechism of Zapatismo and a landmark document in the history of Mexico's agrarian reform. Perhaps the most important point in the plan was the one that called for the surrender of one-third of hacienda lands to the farmers...
...present, the Nixon Administration could vastly improve the existing welfare system at comparatively modest cost, simplifying and humanizing the welter of regulations that governs the welfare system. At the same time, the Federal Government should assume all the costs of welfare (it now pays about half), leaving administration, however, to local and state governments. This one act (cost: $3.4 billion) would relieve the cities of a burden that threatens to bankrupt them. One huge advantage of this federal role in welfare would be to standardize welfare payments across the country, thereby possibly reducing the migration of the poor from states...
...Welter of Programs...
...fully considered the anti-competitive aspects of the consolidation. Last week's unanimous court decision rejected all those objections. In a somewhat lyrical burst of prose, Federal Appeals Judge Charles Fahy took the occasion to lament: "The romance of railroad building is all but lost in the welter of data before us. The merger will bring about changes in vast enterprises that took over from the pony express, the stagecoach and the covered wagon...