Word: approaches
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Failure to raise enough funds from the Filipino community might force the foundation to approach other foundations and institutions in the secular community, says Ezpeleta...
...Statements from White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan and former National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane contain flat-out contradictions about the President's attitude toward the Iran initiative. McFarlane insisted Reagan was interested and often enthusiastic about the approach to Iran and the effort to free the American hostages. Regan, however, testified that the President had serious misgivings...
...Director William Casey misled McFarlane about reports that Israel had been secretly selling arms to Iran since 1981. Had he known about the sales, McFarlane says, he would have changed his opinion about the U.S. approach to Iran. The Administration proceeded with the Iran initiative despite warnings from Secretary of State George Shultz that using Israel as an intermediary "could seriously skew our own perception and analysis of the Iranian scene...
Washington was spending nearly $30 billion a year on public housing when Ronald Reagan arrived in office in 1981. Convinced that such outlays are wasteful, the President has slashed housing aid and abruptly halted new construction, promoting instead a market-driven approach to the problem. Community groups are quick to note that they cannot solve the housing shortage without renewed help from the Federal Government. Yet by developing more efficient construction techniques and innovative financing, the smaller builders hope to pioneer new solutions that draw on both public and private resources. As these groups demonstrate "more frugal ways, more effective...
...House was able to rely on the Republican-dominated Senate to help keep such sentiments under control. Last August those loyalist forces helped Reagan sustain, although narrowly, a presidential veto of a protectionist trade bill that had passed both the House and the Senate. That bill took a piecemeal approach, among other things setting a new system of country-by-country quotas on imports of textiles, shoes and copper from such places as Taiwan, South Korea and Thailand...