Word: approach
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan Administration's approach to housing was another version of the supply-side experiment: instead of subsidizing low-cost construction, as Washington had done since the 1930s, the Reaganites decided to subsidize tenants. Give cash vouchers directly to the poor to help them pay their rent, went the theory, and the market would respond by supplying more housing. Vouchers have had some success in the Southwest, where prices are depressed and vacancy rates relatively high. But in much of the country, as housing prices have increased by 43% in the past eight years, voucher recipients have been unable to find...
...Poland newly installed Prime Minister Mieczyslaw Rakowski took a different approach. As the government continued the daunting task of reaching a compromise with the leadership of Solidarity, the banned trade union, Rakowski invited four independent and opposition figures to join his Cabinet last week. Though all four rebuffed him, Rakowski promised to hold the seats open in case they changed their minds. As he admitted to TIME last week, "Our centralized system for decades has limited individuals' abilities to adapt, to take initiatives. We have to get rid of all those blockages...
...basketball fans, Heinsohn followed the United States Olympic basketball team's rise and fall at the Olympics in Seoul. Unlike a number of those fans who blamed U.S. Coach John Thompson for the team's third-place finish, Heinsohn thinks Thompson did a good job. Heinsohn believes Thompson's approach--stressing a pressure defense instead of a high-scoring offense--was correct...
...there is more direct feedback from the section two approach, then it is good, but there is something to be said about the way the Ames Competition is run," said third-year law student Alexander Chacon...
Thacher Island seems to be a case in point. The society's approach with fundraising ideas didn't pan out, as was clear from the talk I'd heard at the yacht club. Again, though, I thought their reaction was understandable...