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...mortgage interest deduction is about the most inefficient means imaginable for chaneling housing assistance to the needy. It is far less efficient, for example, than direct subsidies. Yet it was these subsidies that suffered more than any other program from Reagan's budget-cutting axe. In 1981, the federal government spent $33 billion on direct housing assistance. By 1989, it had been slashed to $8 billion. During the 1970s, the federal government built anywhere from 200,000 to 300,000 units of low-income housing per year. This year, it will build...
Bush supporters, including Rep. Fred Grandy '70 (R-Iowa), say they also foresee difficult choices, adding that they do not know where the axe is going to fall...
Unlike the flamboyant and outspoken Bennett, Cavazos does not come to the post with an ideological axe to grind or a constituency to alienate. Unlike Bennett, who seemed to take pleasure in refusing to meet with leaders of the education community and asserted that they were merely interested in obtaining more federal money for their programs, Cavazos says he is ready to build a new consensus with Congress and educators...
Near the end of Acomb's testimony, Sullivanshouted to her, "You came in here and told us youwere dying. It's one o'clock in the afternoon andyou're still here. I'm assuming you have an axe togrind...
...edge returned when Nixon compared Gorbachev with two other Soviet leaders he had dealt with: "Unlike ((Nikita)) Khrushchev, he has no inferiority complex. He is totally confident, in command, and secure . . . Gorbachev is as tough as ((Leonid)) Brezhnev but better educated, more skillful, more subtle . . . Brezhnev used a meat axe in his negotiations. Gorbachev uses a stiletto. But beneath the velvet glove he always wears there is a steel fist...