Word: approach
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Whiggery has its virtues. Passage of the tax bill is a good indication that a hyperactive President is not always necessary to useful legislative progress. Ultimately, the question is whether a Whig's approach can deal with the great internal problems of the U.S. today. Federal authority expanded from the New Deal onward largely because a vacuum existed at lower levels of government and in the private sector. Crises existed that only Washington seemed willing to attack. Today the problems may be different, but they are no less urgent. One test of Nixon's philosophy will come when state...
...care for the children as well as job opportunities for some of the mothers. The centers would also offer educational programs. To make the entire system more attractive to the states and cities, Washington would contribute more than it now does for AFDC costs. For instance, if the new approach were in effect this year, California would be getting an extra $179,500,000. Alaska would receive $1,000,000 more...
Despite complaints, provocative and timely ideas broke through the verbal fog of Delos. Sociologist Robert Merton of Columbia suggested that the class structure in the West is undergoing a profound revolution as upper-middle-class and working-class life styles approach each other, and upper-middle-class youths reject their traditional aspirations. Harvard Political Scientist Karl Deutsch elaborated a theory that certain employers, such as sanitation departments, perpetuate poverty by exploiting low-paid labor. As he sees it, low-paid occupations ranging from domestic service to teaching may have to be subsidized. Jerome Monod, the French planner, also described...
Absolute Secrecy. Nowhere was ABC more energetic than in California, where it mixed its usual shrewd salesmanship with strong appeals to patriotism. Describing a typical approach, Dr. Jack Hagadorn, a Costa Mesa physician, said that ABC representatives displayed a right-wing tract denouncing the use of tax money to aid Communist countries. By depriving the Government of such money, they argued, an individual could decide how it should be spent...
...major issue of overhauling commission rates, however, Budge has left it to the stock exchanges to develop detailed proposals. He believes that the SEC should only act as devil's advocate, asking questions about any proposed changes to make sure that no important considerations are overlooked. This approach annoys some high stock-exchange officials, who want specific guidance as to what sort of new schedule the SEC would accept...