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...balance the budget; the committee, including Chairman Byrd, duly supported his view. Said Humphrey with genuine earnestness: "What we need, and what we need badly, in this country, as soon as we can get our house in order to do it, is a general reduction that will affect all taxpayers." Harry Byrd nodded approval...
Federal budget cutbacks should not affect these two projects. However, they represent only the very beginning of a vast program for urban renewal for Cambridge, the remainder of which will be seriously jeopardized by budget reductions, in the opinion of the Citizens Advisory Committee...
Bender indicated that "Hollis scholarships will be considered in effect as prizes," and therefore wouldn't affect scholarships which the winners already held...
...insurance industry also does more medical research on a wider variety of diseases than any other business, with the possible exception of the drug industry. The Prudential itself carries on dozens of different studies on everything from arthritis to high blood pressure, calculates how they affect the odds. For heart research alone, the Pru has a file of 25,000 electrocardiograms, one of the biggest in the world, which it uses to study the effects of the various heartbeat patterns (P, Q, R, S and T-Waves). Years ago the Pru refused to accept applicants whose cardiograms showed deep...
...income tax revision could never produce enough revenue, despite his earlier assertion that "of all the taxes there are, I think the sales tax is the last that should be enacted." His Democratic opponents, on the other hand, claim that the sales tax, in any form, would unjustly affect the lower income classes and inaugurate "the greatest orgy of spending in Massachusetts history," according to Professor Soloway...