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...proposed awards ranged from $2010 to the Harvard International Development Forum to fund an April symposium on world hunger, to $65 to help fund a Scottish dancing party...
...relief to read "Making a Mint Overnight" [Jan. 23]. Thanks for turning from hunger, war and poverty to remind us of excellence and its rewards...
...startling that the Government would pay $91 for a screw that normally costs 3?. But it is even more startling that the Government would pay $320,000 for a four-month study that concludes that rampant hunger does not exist in the U.S. I am more willing to pay the $91 for the 3? screw. At least I get something for my money...
...ADMINISTRATION officials have acted more consistently to show the ugliest features of Reaganism than White House counselor Edwin Meese III. It was Meese who recently raised anew the Reagan government's callousness and insensitivity, when he questioned concern over hunger in the country, and implied that many people in soup lines were really not impoverished. It was Meese who led the Administrations push for tax exemptions for colleges that racially discriminate. And it was Meese who has worked actively to enact the President's notorious directive of March 11, 1983, which seeks to create what is essentially a lifetime censorship...
...task force came back with the finding that although some hunger does exist in the U.S., the President's budget cuts have not reduced the availability of food for the poor. To opponents of the Administration, that assertion was about on a par with Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese's comment in October that reports of widespread hunger were merely "anecdotal." Critics pointed to a study by the Centers for Disease Central in Atlanta suggesting that as many as 500,000 poor children under the age of six are suffering from malnutrition. Senator Edward Kennedy, who made...