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Budget cuts may also force substantial changes on the welfare programs, particularly though cutbacks in foods stamps and other means tested programs. Charles Murray's recent book Losing Ground points out what a disaster those programs have been in terms of decreasing labor force participation among low income families, declining school attendance, family break-ups, etc. The bottom line, as he notes, is that poverty stopped declining as the programs went into effect, and a new dependent underclass has been unintentionally nurtured. However, budget cuts in this area would seem to require a greater role for the private sector...
DARTMOUTH (59)--Corkum 0-0-0; Morwick 2-0-4; Murray 5-2-12; Daigle 7-5-19; Stoddard 0-3-3; Peterson 6-5-17; Fortin 1-2-4; Taylor 0-0-0; Breen 0-0-0; Totals...
Fouled--Out-- Collins, Keffer. Total fouls--Harvard 26, Dartmouth 16. Rebounds--Harvard 38 (Collins 9), Dartmouth 40 (Murray 12). Assists--Harvard 10 (Keffer 3), Dartmouth 9 (Morwick...
...They have a real height advantage and that's what they used to win," said Harvard Co-Captain Wendy Joseph. Indeed, the hosts' trio of six-footers--Jane Daigle, Sue Murray and Margo Peterson--combined for 48 of their team's 59 points...
...Reagan Administration, though, the CEA has had little clout. The first chairman was Murray Weidenbaum of Washington University in St. Louis, who resigned after 18 months on the job because he had only minimal influence on policy. He was succeeded by Harvard's Martin Feldstein, the CEA chairman from October 1982 until last July. Unlike such previous advisers as Arthur Burns and Alan Greenspan, who sometimes disagreed with official policy behind closed doors in the Eisenhower and Ford Administrations, Feldstein broke ranks in public, calling for a tax increase and warning that the federal deficit could throttle the recovery...