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...life of young sailors into line with that of their civilian contemporaries. He radically changed the service's restrictive dress code by permitting modish haircuts, beards and sideburns and eliminating the requirement for frequent uniform changes during the day. (This does not apply, however, to the lowly inductee, whose hair is still cropped when he enters bootcamp.) Zumwalt also revised the duty rotation system and the fleet's operating schedules to give his men more time at home with their families. He established ombudsmen and generally strengthened the machinery for redress of grievances...
...psychologist and expert in experimental education, Moro's wife of 33 years, Eleonora, was meeting a group of parents whose children she was preparing for First Communion when she learned of the kidnaping. Since then, she has left her home only three times−to attend the funeral for her husband's police escort, to attend Mass on Easter Sunday, and to visit the Vatican offices of Caritas, the Catholic relief agency that volunteered to act as an intermediary. The rest of the time she has remained in seclusion in the modest yellow brick apartment building in northern...
Social Security is the largest transfer; last year's payments were $90.4 billion. In all, reckons Economist William Lawrence of Pace University, whose definition of the payments is broader, 1977 transfer payments were equal to 69% of all federal tax receipts...
...many homeowners jumped anywhere from 20% to 100% last year. Some of the most extreme increases are in California, where demand and speculation have inflated real estate prices, and state spending under Governors Ronald Reagan and Jerry Brown has increased an average 12% a year. Says Andrew Smith, 68, whose taxes on his West Los Angeles house have jumped in five years from $650 to $2,780: "Half of the income for Los Angeles County comes from property taxes, and 12% of that goes to policemen's and firemen's pensions. Why do I have...
...White's fear that corporations would use their power to dominate referendum debates, Powell responded that the same could be said of news organizations, whose First Amendment rights are unquestioned. Powell's comment on the power of the press was almost an aside. Filing a concurring opinion, Chief Justice Warren Burger aired the same view in an eight-page essay that at times bordered on a polemic. "Modern media empires" enjoy "vastly greater influence" than most banks or corporations, stated Burger. They "pose a much more realistic threat to valid interests...