Word: basic
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...proposals for Congress that would tighten requirements for entering these programs. Such changes, OMB estimates, would save as much as $1 billion in fiscal 1980. HEW, which has learned that it must absorb one-third of the overall budget cut, cannot possibly accomplish that without changes in basic programs...
...Jefferson's "basic faith in human beings and in the human mind," Malone said, remains the central political theology of America, the legacy of our most talented President. "Jefferson was an excessive optimist," said Malone. "He was an optimist when he probably had no business being an optimist...
...this bright picture. Unlike the U.S., the industrial nations of Europe never really recovered from the 1974-75 recession, in part because they avoided rapid-growth policies for fear of aggravating inflation. A consequence, as well as a continuing cause, of the sluggishness is the decline of three basic industries?steel, textiles and shipbuilding?that provide 4.3 million European jobs. Many companies in these ailing sectors have grown too unwieldy and inefficient to compete in a changing world. To survive, they must shrink, evolve and innovate. Says West German Economics Minister Count Otto Lambsdorff: "There is no reason for losing...
...main cause of European concern is the aggressive entry into world markets of South Korea, Singapore, Brazil and Mexico, which have mastered the basic technology in some relatively unsophisticated industries...
Turner said the CIA now aims at a balance between accountability to government executives, legislators and the public on the one hand, and an intelligence-gathering group's basic need for secrecy on the other...