Word: adopters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...monetary policies to alleviate the slump. Now they believe that the Administration's budget, even with its big deficit, will do very little in a $1.4 trillion economy to revive demand, spur production and thus begin restoring jobs. Asserts Tax Specialist Joseph Pechman: "If Congress were to adopt the Ford program lock, stock and barrel, the net stimulus today would be zero." Adds Arthur Okun of the Brookings Institution: "The entire reason for that deficit is that the economy is in terrible shape, and is knocking hell out of revenues and increasing federal expenditures for unemployment and other things...
Democrats began to take a more relaxed view of the President's program. "Why adopt draconian measures?" said one Senate aide. "There's no magic in a 1 million-bbl.-per-day oil cutback that would deflate the economy and shoot up unemployment. There has still been no coherent, clear explanation why we should put on this hair shirt." Said Democratic Whip Robert Byrd: "Let's take first things first-let's stop the recessionary slide, create jobs, cut taxes." Similar advice came from the citadel of conservative economic policy. Arthur Burns cautioned: "The President...
Individualists all, Evangelicals are loath to construct a bureaucracy, and many of them think that church movements should adopt a low profile at a time when the secular world seems hypnotized by power. Nonetheless, after days of debate in Mexico City, the committee set up a loose minimal structure. More important, they decided to appoint a full-time executive secretary and offered the job to a Third World churchman, the Rev. Gottfried B. Osei-Mensah, 40, pastor of the Nairobi Baptist Church in Kenya. Once a sales engineer with Mobil Oil in Ghana, Osei-Mensah holds a bachelor of science...
...economic housekeeping. It favored a financial "safety net," funded largely by oil money already flowing through the Western banking system, that would make loans on a more discriminating basis. After meeting in Washington, finance ministers of the ten leading industrial countries came up with a logical compromise: they will adopt both proposals in modified form...
Most often, however, humans attempt to endow their pets with human qualities, deluding themselves and demeaning animals. Many married couples who are unwilling or unable to have children adopt animals instead, embarking on a quasi-parental relationship without the responsibilities and hazards involved in child rearing. "If your romance is going to the dogs," suggests a pet-food-industry publication called Pet Pourri, "you might try a dog to save it." In fact, there are countless cases in which a couple's rivalry for a pet's affection-or occasionally even its sexual favors-ends in divorce...