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...occupying students demand increased financial aid to offset the $650 rise in student expenses; continuation of a remedial program aimed at disadvantaged students: increased enrollment of Asian and minority students; no cutbacks in staff; and complete legal and academic amnesty for the students who have participated in the takeover...
...Connally's unlimited financial resources and shrewd political mind will help to offset those weaknesses. Through all his troubles. Connally stood far above the gray men of Nixon's administration. In a fight between the leaders of the poles of the party. Reagan and Rockefeller, he might be an ideal candidate to step into the vacuum in the middle...
...upset the state's teachers by increasing the educational budget less than his Republican predecessor did last year. To provide tax relief, especially for the poor, he has proposed a general income tax cut and elimination of the sales tax on food. This revenue loss would be offset by a 1 ¾% boost in the state corporate tax and a new tax on mining operations. For economic reasons, the once crusading Lamm has only cautiously advanced his education, health and welfare proposals. "He has always been a person in the forefront of causes," says Senate Democratic Leader Raymond Kogovsek...
...good as any. About the only certainty is that federal revenues in fiscal 1976 will be sharply reduced by the $24.8 billion gross tax cut signed by President Ford last week (see THE NATION). But it is impossible to predict to what extent that cut might be offset by an economic resurgence, which would lift the individual incomes and corporate profits that are subject to taxation. A much greater imponderable is the spending proclivity of Congress...
...because restrictions on them were dropped and foreign purchases of U.S. stocks fell because of the bear market. But, worst of all, the Commerce Department's statistics underscored the fact that the nation's bill for petroleum imports soared by $18 billion last year. This more than offset exports of soybeans, jet planes computers and myriad other products' and led to a merchandise trade deficit of $5.88 billion...