Word: aid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Occasionally in recent months he has gone on campaigns of self-depreciating humor that debunk the nature of his office?usually with the aid of Paul Keyes, a former writer and co-producer for Laugh-In. Two weeks ago at a meeting of the American Bakers Association, Agnew excused himself by remarking: "The President needs me at the White House. It's autumn, you know, and the leaves need raking." Earlier, at a Gridiron Club dinner, he described the joys of the vice-presidency. "I have my own plane?Air Force 13. It's a glider...
...symbolic confrontation, the possibility of violence we detest but feel we must not run from. The public still isn't interested in what we have to say: Politicians and the press talk about parade permits and troop concentrations; they still find it newsworthy that the demonstration will give aid and comfort to the "enemy." Violence may make the public close their ears to us, but nothing we can do will make them listen...
This fiscal gap substantially accounts for the "political theatre" of the "battle of the bulging budget." The tendency for costs to exceed taxes requires periodic adjustments to annually balance the local budget (as required by law), either by downgrading program quality, raising tax rates, or increasing dependence on outside aid. Usually some combination of all three types of adjustment is used, leading to cries of distress from three overlapping groups: public service recipients, City taxpayers, and State (and to a much lesser extent, Federal) taxpayers...
Mayor Lindsay, in his Policy Statement accompanying the latest Executive Budget, outlined a multiple adjustment (and received, as expected, a multiple response): "To close the ($600 million) gap has required a series of measures. First, the budget was cut ($276 million). Second, State aid to the City has been substantially increased ($220 million). Third, new and additional taxes will be necessary. Fourth, I am recommending that user charges and fees for certain services he adjusted to a full cost basis. Fifth, there are in addition numerous funding shifts...
...most of the time, the Grant-in-Aid production does this rather obscure musical proud. George Birnbaum, the director, who missed the boat somewhat with his Damn Yankees last spring, seems to have found himself this time around. His staging has clearly been well thought out: the comic elements are never punched: the show's silken melancholy is handled with exquisite grace...