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...Weinberger was pleased with the proposals. Critics will have until Oct. 15 to suggest changes; then the revised regulations will be submitted to the President for approval. Weinberger hopes to put the new rules into effect early next year. "Our role," says he, "is to be a catalyst, and we will use the full panoply of enforcement to bring about this change." But "flexibility" will be the watchword. "We don't want a backlash...
Angry Critics. Trudeau's budget, which called for higher levies on liquor and tobacco while abolishing taxes on other consumer goods, may have been the immediate catalyst for the end of his affair with the New Democrats and his subsequent defeat. But other developments in recent months helped make the Prime Minister's downfall seem predictable. One notable factor has been a strong political revival of the Conservative Party. A Gallup poll last month showed the Tories' popularity among voters to be up by 3% since February, while the Liberals' had dropped...
...group became a part of the Harvard-Radcliffe Afro-American Cultural Center a year later, as part of an attempt "to act as a catalyst to bring together all the creative efforts of black students in the Boston area," explains Walters. The Cultural Center has since been besieged by its problems and is now struggling to remain solvent. But the Kuumbas keep achieving...
...control does not solve the housing problem. CTOC holds that the solution to housing problems is the abolition of private property. CTOC spokesmen argue that control lowers rents for some tenants, and makes it harder for landlords to evict residents. Controls are also useful, according to CTOC, as a catalyst in tenant organization for more basic reform...
...next year, with DeBusschere as catalyst, the Knicks took the National Basketball Association championship, and grabbed the honor again...