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Others hope that the press, if no one else, will provide the gimlet-eyed assessment of Jackson. Some implicitly assume that Jackson cannot withstand such scrutiny. Certainly Jackson's maladroit stewardship of $5.6 million in federal grants and contracts awarded under the Carter Administration is a lingering embarrassment. Technically the money went to PUSH-Excel, an educational subsidiary of Jackson's Chicago antipoverty organization, Operation PUSH. From the outset, Jackson was the catalyst for the funding. Carter Cabinet officials such as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Joseph Califano and Secretary of Labor Ray Marshall courted Jackson and invited...
While experts in reactor safety insisted that the country's nuclear plants could withstand such a crash without radiation leakage, Hubert Weinzierl, chairman of West Germany's leading environmentalist group, claimed otherwise. Said he: "We missed a nuclear holocaust by the skin of our teeth...
...Jackson, as he proved in 1984 after the hymietown incident, has sufficiently strong backing from a sufficiently large group of voters to withstand the occasional damaging story. Brinkley noted that the phenomenon of the constituent-less candidate was a relatively new and not particularly encouraging one. Jackson is throwback to an earlier political landscape, when candidates ran because people wanted them to, not just because they thought they should be president...
...fliers presenting a drawing of two men charging at each other with ridiculously oversized guess-whats. I should have known what I was in for when I saw the flier with Prascak's name given the same billing as Mamet's. But if you have the endurance to withstand Prascak's vindictive pretensions, Glengarry Glen Ross may be worth the trip to the Quad...
...rising level of federal Medicaid reimbursement to the states, which helps pay for medical care for the poor, could be better controlled by pegging increases to the Consumer Price Index. The National Institutes of Health, whose budget has increased more than 50% since 1981, could withstand a 5% cutback without endangering vital programs...