Carter, Reagan, Anderson on science

Reagan wins mock election , Anderson whips Carter 2 to 1

A new directive to all Catholic institutions within the Ft. W ayne-South Bend diocese may affect the future o f Mardi Gras at N otre Dame, according to Student Activities Director James M cDonnell. Bishop William McManus in­ itiated the directive, which pro­ hibits gambling for charitable causes. According to M cDonnell, the directive results from an incident that took place in Ft. W ayne last ...

A Comparison of Initial Recommendation Procedures: Judicial Selection Under Reagan and Carter

Creating a science of homelessness during the Reagan era.

UNLABELLED POLICY POINTS: A retrospective analysis of federally funded homeless research in the 1980s serves as a case study of how politics can influence social and behavioral science research agendas today in the United States. These studies of homeless populations, the first funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, demonstrated that only about a third of the homeless population was...

mortality forecasting based on lee-carter model

over the past decades a number of approaches have been applied for forecasting mortality. in 1992, a new method for long-run forecast of the level and age pattern of mortality was published by lee and carter. this method was welcomed by many authors so it was extended through a wider class of generalized, parametric and nonlinear model. this model represents one of the most influential recent d...

Reagan silences Congress on Social Security cuts

WASHINGTON (A P) Republican congressional leaders said yesterday that President Reagan gave them no encouragem en t w hen they proposed cu tting Social Security and o th e r open-ended benefit p rogram s this year in o rder to hold dow n the federal deficit. O ne called th e proposal, “just barely an open question .” A nother said it “should be put to res t” for this year, despite w hat w ere d...