Word: acker
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...another ruling, the Court yesterday refused to review a petition to block proceedings in the registration case. Filed "on behalf of the U.S. government" by Stacy Acker, a 20-year-old woman from Alabama, the petition claims the government has the authority to register only...
...calculate that the average military income, when adjusted for inflation, is about 11% below what it was in 1972. For many first-term enlistees who make only their $448.80 a month basic pay, hourly earnings are substantially less than the $3.10 federal minimum wage. Says Major General William P. Acker, Commander of the Air Force Military Training Center at Lackland in Texas: "A good, sharp youngster can do better working at McDonald...
...likely to do is appropriate the $13.3 million the White House seeks for the staffs and computers needed to register the nation's 18-year-olds, which has not been done since 1975. The Senate is expected to consider the question this week. Says Air Force Major General Acker: "At the very least, some form of registration is necessary to provide a ready pool of people to call on if needed." In addition, according to Major General Maxwell Thurman, head of the Army's recruiting command, registration "will heighten the 18-year-old's awareness of the Army...
...program "was very positive and broad," said C. Edward Acker, chairman of Air Florida, a small airline. "I wasn't expecting so much." Otto Eckstein, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists, declared: "I think the President has made a complete reversal of his economic policy, for the better. He has gone from three years of greatly excessive budget deficits and excessive money supply expansion to a conservative regime of budget balancing and limited credit growth." Republican Senator Bob Packwood of Oregon commented with ironic approval: "It seems that the President has learned more about inflation...