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The Senate bill is a companion to a House bill passed last December. The $7 billion House measure is more expensive and less stringent, and it provides greater benefits. Differences between the two must now be resolved by a House- Senate conference committee. The White House prefers the sterner Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Welfare Overhaul Senators pass a landmark bill | 6/27/1988 | See Source »

Reading, alas, can be deceiving. Finally, a few words about the press, that media mob of 3,000 journalists who descended on Iowa like commandos hitting the beaches of Normandy. Certainly, when it came to influencing the results, the press proved to be a paper tiger. Despite his glowing clip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Primary Lessons of 1988 | 6/20/1988 | See Source »

Such problems are partly because of a shortage of attorneys willing to spend some time representing the poor free of charge. Pro bono work is the trade term for it, from the Latin pro bono publico, meaning "for the public good." It has long been a tenet of the profession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: The Sad Fate of Legal Aid | 6/20/1988 | See Source »

The optimism of the 1960s grew out of an affluent stable economy, in which students had the economic freedom to devote themselves to politics, says Miller.

Author: By Lisa A. Taggart, | Title: The '80s Student Movement: Persistence Without Idealism | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

The economic pressures on students today do not allow them the time to devote themselves to political issues, say many professors.

Author: By Lisa A. Taggart, | Title: The '80s Student Movement: Persistence Without Idealism | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

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