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After all efforts to find a new backer failed, the GSD picked up the Field Service's expanses. Since 1970, the UFS has been funded solely by the Design School's unrestricted income. The limited money has forced a cutback in outside supervisors and projects. Last year, Seferi accepted only six projects, and directed five of them by her. The sixth was handled by a non-salaried outside architect...
...sharing, they are worried about losing an even richer source of money: federal grants that are targeted for specific projects such as pollution control and housing. Some Administration officials have charged that these grants have scattered money wastefully, and city administrators see the criticism as a prelude to a cutback in these funds, which total $41 billion this fiscal year. If the grants are clipped appreciably, many communities might have to start raising taxes within a year or two. For all the benefits of revenue sharing, it is highly doubtful that it can effectively substitute for the patchwork of grants...
...scholarship's elimination succeeded in consolidating the normally fragmented graduate student populace. Five days after the announcement of the cutback, a group of about 200 grad students launched the Graduate Student and Teaching Fellow Union, which was to grow in membership to nearly 1200 within a month...
...arrangement leaves Iraq looking for customers for 60% of the oil it used to sell to the West. As the price for its derring-do in taking over I.P.C., Baghdad faces a severe cutback in its ambitious plans for agricultural and industrial development. The Baath regime has already ordered an austerity program to offset the drop in oil revenues. Foreign travel has been banned except for government officials, students or ailing citizens allowed to go abroad for treatment...
...Hogarthian reflections of a Bedlam approach to the problem. They are chronically short of funds and personnel, do little to train the more seriously afflicted and can rarely maintain even minimal standards of hygiene. One example is New York's Willowbrook State School on Staten Island, where a cutback in state appropriations recently caused conditions to deteriorate to the crisis point (TIME, Feb. 14). Talking about the care in state custodial institutions generally, Willowbrook Director Jack Hammond says: "It's inhuman. We're treating the mentally retarded as if they have somehow offended society...