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Union PACs favor Democrats over Republicans by a ratio of about 12 to 1. By contrast, the corporate donations this year were split about equally between Democrats and Republicans. Most of the money went to incumbents with lots of seniority. Says John Bonitt, head of Bendix Corp.'s PAC: "That's where the committee chairmen are." Louisiana Democrat J. Bennett Johnston, who heads Senate subcommittees on energy and appropriations, received at least $192,000 from about 190 PACs, though he had only token opposition in the primary and none in the general election. Why so much support? Says...
...amendments accepted by the Faculty Council establish an equal ratio between students and faculty on the committee, bar legal counsel at hearings before the CRR, and guarantee the right to petition to release transcripts of any CRR hearing...
...pursuit; more than three-quarters of those arrested in 1976 were under 25. Between 1960 and 1976, the 14-to-20-year-old, or potentially criminal, population grew remarkably, accounting for a good part of the criminal juggernaut. Moreover, the '60s saw a 39 per cent increase in the ratio of youth to adult criminals, the first such rise in over 70 years. The socialization of the young, the internalization of societal norms, burdened with this "demographic overload," partially collapsed, resulting in more crime...
Joseph A. Califano, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, testifying on the Hill this summer warned of the changing dependency ratio in the United States--by the year 2000 one-fifth of the population will be over 65; three workers will support one retiree as opposed to the six that now support each senior citizen. There is no doubt that the social security system will have to undergo a major revamping in the upcoming years unless the next generation of the labor force is willing to accept an inordinate increase in social security taxation...
Suggesting that the high student-faculty ratio in large lecture courses may make teaching more difficult, the task force proposes that student and teaching fellows evaluate individual courses...