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Chop Farm Subsidies and Controls. Federal farm aid has grown fourfold in the past two years, to an estimated $7.9 billion, and the Senate passed a farm bill last month that will add $120 to $170 to the food bill of a family of four in the next fiscal year. As a counter to that expensive bill, President Carter last week recommended higher wheat subsidies and for the first time since the early 1970s offered corn and cotton subsidies to farmers who reduce plantings, which will surely raise food prices. There is no excuse for subsidies, despite some farmers...
...source and other critics have also claimed that the department's roughly fourfold expansion since the late '60s "creates a mechanical approach to teaching--if students are to develop their own ideas for planning, they have to be able to work closely with the faculty." Although the faculty-student ratio worsened, William A. Doebele, professor of Advanced Environmental Studies in the Field of Implementation, says it was a "temporary dilution--there's been an enormous catch-up in the last two years...
...today are making fortunes than ever before. Sharing the riches, 1,149 taxpayers had annual incomes of $1 million or more in 1975-nearly twice as many as in 1970. The number of individuals in the U.S. with a net worth of $ 1 million or more has soared almost fourfold in the past 15 years: from 54,000 in 1962 to nearly 200,000 today-although these figures are somewhat deceptive, since anyone who was worth $1 million in 1962 would need $1.92 million to be as well off today. As Economist Robert Heilbroner wrote in The Quest for Wealth...
...police the 2.2 million sq. mi. added to U.S. fishing waters-a fourfold increase in the area covered by the old law-the Coast Guard plans to add four planes, five helicopters and six ships, at a total cost of $90 million...
Salisbury has already been forced to raise its defense budget fourfold in the past three years, to $80 million-a big bite for a country already suffering from United Nations-sponsored economic sanctions. Calling up reservists to beef up Rhodesia's 4,500-man army and 1,500-man air force would further strain an unstable economy...