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...administrator, "there are people who are missing some kinds of experiences because they don't have equal access to people of different kinds"--thanks to the impetus to clique-forming provided by a lottery based on choice. Yet because of administration perceptions that students would fight a more stringent system every step of the way, "everyone would prefer students to have freedom of choice...
...Beginning next Monday, selling or possessing a handgun in Morton Grove will be a crime, punishable by up to six months in jail and a $500 fine. The law against possession, passed 4 to 2 by the village trustees and upheld by a federal district court, is the most stringent gun control statute...
...Colorado legislator in the late '70s, Gorsuch, 39, led a successful battle to block her state's participation in the EPA's hazardous-wastes program. She also fought for less stringent auto emission standards in a Colorado clean-air law. Thus when President Reagan nominated her last February to be the nation's chief enforcer against pollution, environmentalists were appalled. They feared that she had been appointed less to run the agency than to dismantle it. As she completes the first year of her imperious reign-restive subordinates at EPA call her the "Ice Queen"-conservationists...
...with only a fraction of patients paying the full cost, the difference usually has to be patched together from a variety of sources, including private donations and United Way. Medicaid money, long a mainstay for nursing homes, is available for day care, but only for health-oriented facilities meeting stringent medical requirements. Some federal funds are also available under Title XX of the Social Security Act, but under the Reagan Administration, the total has been cut nearly...
...sharply divided Cambridge City Council last night defeated one of the strongest recent challenges to the city's stringent codes preventing the conversion of rent controlled apartments to condominiums...