Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...engage Government, business and labor in projects to solve problems and help people. It will never again be the all-daddy Government of the New Deal, they say, but neither will it be the shrunken Reagan version. "The swing is away from what you could call the laissez-faire approach of Ronald Reagan to one that takes a more active, compassionate approach to those in true need," says Republican Mayor William Hudnut of Indianapolis. "It is a ground swell gaining force...
...least slow their rate of increase, to strengthen defense and give people more to spend through tax cuts. Says Daniel Yankelovich, the public opinion analyst: "They were uneasy about doing so because they suspected that millions of poor people would get hurt, but they accepted the Reagan approach because they agreed that something was badly amiss with the liberal theory of Government-backed entitlements. But Reagan's personal 'goodness' seemed to guarantee that it was not a Scrooge-like thing to do. As long as Reagan was credible, his solutions were acceptable...
...current push for welfare reform, led nationally by New York Senator Daniel Moynihan and Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, is the best example of this approach. It is based on two truths: that unconditional aid leads to long-standing dependency and that the impoverished children of this nation cannot merely be abandoned. The new approach -- being tried with some success in states such as Massachusetts, California, New Jersey and New York -- is to require recipients to enter training and job-placement programs. In some of the proposals, the Federal Government would become the employer of last resort...
...That approach has sustained a lifelong struggle for social change. In her senior year at all-black Spelman College in Atlanta, Edelman became active in the 1960s civil rights movement. While volunteering in the local office of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, she became aware that there were no attorneys to represent poor blacks. She went off to Yale Law School, then became the first black woman admitted to the Mississippi bar. As a staff attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, she met her husband Peter, a fellow attorney and an adviser...
Congressional leaders of both parties, like the sagacious Georgia Senator Sam Nunn, have been invited into the White House for their counsel. Their inputis now being felt on issues like the ABM treaty, SDI, trade, welfare. Changes in Reagan's approach to policy are almost inevitable, unless he wants to court more defeat, which could darken his exit a couple of years hence...