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...David L. Evans, a senior admissions officer involved with minority students, says the report was released at a bad time--just as a new administration entered Washington with what appeared to be a very conservative mandate. Blacks were already worried that Reagan might wipe out many of the existing social programs, and the Klitgaard report "gave some sanctity to this concern," Evans, who himself is Black, says...
...restrictions may not survive much longer, though. In its next term the high court will decide whether Missouri is entitled to discipline a lawyer whose Yellow Pages ad identified one of his specialties as "personal injury" rather than "negligence," the state-approved word. In the process, the Justices could wipe out almost all such impediments...
...dropping to around 4% by 1986. Interest rates should go down from 13.6% now on 91-day Treasury bills to 5.5% in 1986. At the same time, contends the Administration, the federal budget deficit should almost disappear as rising productivity and increased employment combine to increase federal revenues and wipe out the loss to the Treasury from the tax cuts. By 1984, according to this rosy projection, the deficit should have shrunk from around $55 billion next year to a minuscule $2.2 billion-though even that could vanish with further refinements in the tax package...
...battlefield nuclear weapons, and the intercontinental weapons. The NATO TNF will not be ready for deployment until 1983. Meanwhile, the Soviets are steadily deploying the SS-20, and have about 750 warheads-each 15 times or so Hiroshima strength-in place today. In 15 minutes, these weapons could wipe out most of the major military targets and much of the urban fabric of Western Europe...
...Mormon Church), an especially powerful force in Utah. In addition, Weinberger reportedly is concerned that the Soviets, unless restrained by a new SALT agreement, could use the eight years it would take to complete the land-based MX system to deploy enough of their own intercontinental warheads to wipe out all 4,600 of the shelters...