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Title: Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association-College Retirement Equity Fund (TIAA-CREF) and the tax bill (H.R. 3838): Issues and analysis
Date: 1986
Summary: The House-passed tax reform bill (H.R. 3838) would have a major impact on the operations of the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association-College Retirement Equity Fund (TIAA-CREF). This paper discusses the issues raised by provisions in H.R. 3838 that would: (1) repeal the organization's tax-exempt status, (2) impose nondiscrimination standards on the retirement plans covering employees of colleges and universities, (3) limit contributions that employees may elect to make before taxes to their retirement plan, (4) coordinate salary deferrals made to the TIAA-CREF plan with the limits on Individual Retirement Arrangements (IRAs), and (5) under certain circumstances, impose a 15 percent excise tax on early withdrawals.

Title: The "gender gap": Differences between men and women in political attitudes and voting behavior
Date: 1983
Summary: This report examines the differences between men and women in their attitudes towards President Reagan, opinions on issues, party identification, turnout and voting behavior in the 1980 and 1982 elections. Poll results collected over the past three decades are used to compare the current differences between men and women in attitudes towards President Reagan, economic policies, social issues and the use of military force with their views towards previous Presidents, the Korean and Vietnam Wars and other foreign and economic policy issues.

Title: Gramm-Rudman-Hollings and Department of Education programs
Date: 1986
Summary: This paper describes the application of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, P.L. 99-177, popularity called "Gramm-Rudman-Hollings," to programs administered by the Department of Education, particularly, it will focus on provisions establishing "emergency powers to eliminate deficits in excess of maximum deficit amounts." All of the programs within the Department's jurisdiction are subject to the automatic spending reduction provisions of this law. Two programs are subject to special treatment, the Guaranteed Student Loan and the Vocational Rehabilitation State grant program. The remaining programs are subject to a uniform percentage reduction, estimated to be 4.3 percent for FY 1986.

Title: The Dow Jones industrial average
Date: 1986
Summary: The Dow Jones Industrial Average is the oldest and most commonly known index of the day-to-day overall price performance of stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange. This stock price index has undergone much change since its inception. This report examines the evolution of the stock index's components, and method of calculation. It also briefly addresses the issue of the index's usefulness.

Title: The Gramm-Rudman-Hollings amendment for budget deficit control: Editorial commentary
Date: 1985
Summary: This illustrative collection of editorials is taken from newspapers monitored by CRS. The sources look at the controversy surrounding the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings amendment to the debt limit increase for the purpose of reducing budget deficits and balancing the budget by 1991. An introductory section contains newspaper articles presenting press coverage on the issue. The articles and editorials are arranged chronologically, with the most recent dates appearing first. [Current Editorial CE79 on budget deficits is also available; it includes editorials on this topic received in Library Services since November 1, 1985.]