Word: addresses
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...education, the poor, the homeless, the aged, the ill. We are at a point in this country where all the visions, liberal and conservative, have come and gone, and we are left standing among the quite specific and various problems that those visions either created or failed to address. No new mythic dream will clean up the mess, and no one really knows what to do about much of it. Yet we are still part of the original 200-year-old vision that saw America as a power wanting to be as good as it is great. The candidate...
...applied to the lucky few. Fortunately, after proposing cuts in the national education budget in six of its seven years, the Reagan Administration has begun to appreciate the stakes. This year education is one of the few areas where funding will be increased. In his State of the Union address, the President is expected to announce a billion-dollar boost for the 1989 Department of Education budget...
Stepping on Bush's lines. When Bush's aides saw the education section in early drafts of Reagan's State of the Union address, they were upset. Not because the Vice President disagreed with the words -- just the opposite. Many of the ideas, such as directing resources toward basic skills and lowering dropout rates, are ones that Bush has been pushing (to little notice) on the campaign trail. The Bush people could not persuade the White House to leave the topic to them. One of Bush's aides said of Reagan's newest education initiative, "We're going...
...seventh anniversary in the White House last week, Ronald Reagan seemed determined to end his presidency with a flourish. "As they say in show biz," he urged his aides and appointees, "let's bring them to their feet with our closing act." But the State of the Union address that the President prepared to deliver this week was less a stirring aria than a medley of his greatest hits. It includes a ringing anthem to the Reagan revolution: the tax cuts -- including a call for new reduction in the rate on capital gains -- the five-year economic boom, the resurgence...
...State of the Union address, Reagan planned to bring up several examples of those excesses, totaling $4.4 billion, culled from an 80-page list compiled by researchers in the White House Office of Management and Budget. Among the candidates: a $300,000 grant for grackle control in the Rio Grande Valley; $240,000 for a study of the damage done to macadamia nuts by rats; $1.4 million for a catfish farm in Stuttgart, Ark.; and -- in a special dig at the legislators -- $500,000 to bring leaders of emerging democracies to the U.S. to study the workings of Congress...