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...what Cuomo calls "my defense budget"--money appropriated for law- and-order--he has built more than 6,000 new prison cells for the overcrowded New York system. He has proposed a Medicaid bill that reforms the method of payment, saving the state money. New York has begun an innovative program to provide capital construction money to nonprofit groups to build housing for the homeless. It has also pioneered a variation on "workfare" programs, permitting welfare recipients to receive job training...
...former homemaker, and recently pledged an additional $150 million in aid to Manila. "She's surprising us in some ways," said one Washington official. "She also seems clearly preferable to any of the alternatives." That much has been underlined by the troublesome presence in Hawaii of Marcos, whose payment of supporters to stir up unrest in Manila has irritated even the usually imperturbable Shultz. "He's causing trouble," declared the Secretary of State last week, "and some of it goes beyond just argument...
...home ownership was becoming illusory. In fact, statistics show that by scraping and borrowing, most Baby Boom families eventually managed to buy at least a modest dwelling. In 1983 nearly half of all young families owned their homes, about the same proportion as a decade earlier. Many a down payment came from parents; Rutgers University Housing Economist George Sternlieb quips that Baby Boomers have popularized a new form of G.I. financing: "G.I. as in Good In-laws...
...some say the goodwill gesture doesn't go far enough. "We certainly appreciate the payment, but realistically it is a token amount when you consider the demands on the city," said City Councilor David E. Sullivan...
Harvard also makes a variety of payments to theCity of Boston, including a $750,000in-lieu-of-tax payment for the 475-unit SoldiersField Park apartment complex...