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...long-term unemployed and for families who have run out of unemployment benefits but are not eligible for Medicaid, the Administration recommends opening up Title XX social-service block grants. To finance these new beneficiaries, the Reagan proposal suggests changing the Administration's health-cost-containment legislation now under consideration in Congress. That legislation would require that a family be taxed on an employer's contribution to a worker's health insurance if it exceeded a "tax cap" of $175. At present, health-insurance benefits are not taxable to workers. The plan proposed by Budget Director Stockman...
...difference usually has to be patched together from a variety of sources, including private donations and United Way. Medicaid money, long a mainstay for nursing homes, is available for day care, but only for health-oriented facilities meeting stringent medical requirements. Some federal funds are also available under Title XX of the Social Security Act, but under the Reagan Administration, the total has been cut nearly...
...million in 1981, is not without its perils. Recalls Hecht: "A woman in Kansas ordered Joseph Wambaugh's The Choirboys, thinking it must be about a church picnic. She soon let us know what she thought about the language and sex." B.O.T.'s catalogue now gives an XX rating for tapes of Anaïs Nin's Delta of Venus and The Hite Report. But even the lustiest prose is underplayed. Actor Dan Lazar reads My Wicked, Wicked Ways, Errol Flynn's spicy autobiography, in the vocal equivalent of Muzak. Says Hecht...
...joint ventures with Honda. In September, BL introduced the Triumph Acclaim, a Honda-designed car that seats five people and sells for as much as $10,500. In addition, BL has signed a joint agreement with Honda to create and build a compact luxury car, code-named the XX, which will be sold both in Britain and abroad...
...bizarre subject matter" is cultural anthropology to which I was introduced by Malinowski in the 1930s. I met Jomo Kenyatta and read Facing Mt. Kenya. For the first time I learned about female circumcision. About 30 years later a paper on Female Infibulation was published in Studia ethnographica Upsaliensia XX, 1964, by Professor C.G. Widstand, director of the Scandinavian Africa Institute. His paper has what Dr. Counter calls "explicit photographic materials" on violence against women (and children). Dr. Counter should demand that this documentation be removed from the Harvard University Library and burned! To his outburst about my intelligence...