Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...matter of adaptation to political reality. Roosevelt had his Garner; Adlai Stevenson his Jim Crow running mate, John Sparkman; John Kennedy his Lyndon Johnson-it is a tradition as old as Jackson and Calhoun." The Buckley line was echoed by other sophisticated political augurs. It did not take into account, however, the fact that Reagan, unlike the other candidates mentioned, had spectacularly insisted on ideological purity and compatibility with his running mate...
...continue the 1951 ANZUS Treaty, which commits Australia, New Zealand and the U.S. to counter regional threats with their own forces, Fraser has ordered a $15 billion increase in Australian defense spending over the next five years. But Fraser also wants the alliance with the U.S. redefined to take account of future Russian actions in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Toward that end, he has proposed some sort of four-power Pacific cooperation embracing the U.S., China, Japan and Australia-a form of local détentein Asia...
...trade, with the P.M. pressing the U.S. to import more beef from Down Under. Australia last year bought $2 billion worth of goods from the U.S., which in return spent only $1 billion in Australia. The very size of the overseas economic presence in Australia, where U.S. firms account for 40% of the $14.6 billion total in foreign investments, is also becoming an irritant; with Australian nationalism running strong, Fraser has set guidelines whereby U.S. and other foreign investors will be required to offer Australians the chance of obtaining a 50% share in new projects. Washington in turn...
...were far lower and passengers flocked to the then novel technology of commercial jet travel. But that would be far less than the $750 million to $900 million in earnings that the airlines say they will need to attract new capital to replace aging, first-generation aircraft, which still account for 46% of the U.S. fleet...
...capacity of Government to assess problems accurately and to take into account people's judgement of their own needs is essential to effective social reform. More than ever such sensitivity is required to foster respect for our institutions. We are all aware that some approaches to social reform do more harm than good. Effective government action requires a deep awareness of how that action will be seen and evaluated by our increasingly active and informed citizens...