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Bilateral Talks. Following its humiliating defeat, the government announced plans to hold bilateral talks with the opposition parties to see if any means could be found to save the devolution bill. But the vote seemed to consign the measure either to endless debate (only three of its 116 clauses had been considered in eleven days of discussion) or eventual abandonment for this session of Parliament. It drastically undercut Labor's position with Scottish voters and, though not a vote of confidence, raised the question of the Labor Party's ability to govern. For the first time since Prime...
What kind of America is waiting for Jimmy Carter? What is the mood of the country he will govern ? To find out, TIME correspondents across the country talked to people from all levels of American society about their morale, their current concerns, their hopes and fears about the future, their expectations for the new Administration. Herewith the report from Washington Bureau Chief Hugh Sidey, followed by reports from New England, the Middle Atlantic, the South, the Midwest and the West...
Congress tried-and partially succeeded in-overcoming these handicaps last year by designing legislation that creates jobs with a future (such as teaching, police work, surveying) and requires that they go to workers unemployed 15 weeks or longer. That safeguard, contained in the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act, will govern allocation of the additional billions Carter wants in order to increase the number of public service jobs from 310,000 to as many as 700,000 next year. The potential loophole will be enforcement of the 15-week unemployment standard now prevailing...
...With abundant gold are we constrained to buy a husband," lamented Euripedes' Medea in a sigh of woe that is as valid today as it was 2,500 years ago. No fewer than 32 articles of the modern Greek civil code govern and define the antique institution of the dowry -the practice of bestowing a property settlement on a daughter as an inducement to marriage. Now, however, Greece's time-honored system of mandatory dowries is under attack. Legislative pressure for its abolition comes chiefly from the seven women in Greece's 300-member Parliament. A draft...
...organizing principle instead of electronegativity. Questions of what is good for us may therefore be put safely aside. The physicist does not worry about what is good for the atoms; neither should the task of the economist be to determine what's good for people, but rather, what laws govern their economic behavior...