Word: blueprinting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brings in about $1 billion a year?should be replaced by a legislative package that would include welfare reform, a selective job freeze and, if necessary, a "modest" increase in the state sales tax. The proposal has been roundly attacked by economists, editorialists?and many fellow Republican politicians. "A blueprint for disaster," charged the Trenton Times, arguing that the Bateman plan would raise property and sales taxes and most hurt those least able to afford it?the elderly, the unemployed and the poor. Byrne has latched onto the tax issue with uncharacteristic vehemence?and apparent political success...
Delays in meeting the complex rules, which must be complied with before building can start, boost costs. Says New Jersey Builder Philip Azzolina: "Two or three years ago, you took the architect's blueprint for a house to the local authority, and while you waited it was approved or rejected. If it was approved, it was stamped on the spot; you then paid the fee and got the building permit. Now you submit the plan, and in some towns it takes a month to get it approved and permission to build. Before a blueprint is passed...
...Pathet Lao regime that replaced the monarchy in 1975, assuming that their new rulers would be as typically languid as the old ones. But the gray-uniformed Pathet Lao-backed by 15,000 Vietnamese troops and 500 Soviet advisers-immediately began building the country according to a socialist blueprint...
...resolve a dispute of this sort? Although the amended Civil Rights Act of 1964 orders employers to make "reasonable accommodations" to an employee's religious needs, it carefully avoids being specific about what would be reasonable. And for good reason. Some legal experts believe that any detailed blueprint on how to avoid religious discrimination would put the law in violation of the First Amendment's ban on Government establishment of an official religion-or even in violation of a citizen's right to have no religion at all. Twice before, in 1971 and 1976, the U.S. Supreme...
...emphasized during the campaign. He has been instructed to trim the professional political staff by at least one-third. Yet the White House staff is 560 today, compared with 540 when Gerald Ford first took office. When White House and Office of Management and Budget aides presented a reorganization blueprint to Jordan, they voiced doubts that the staff numbers could be kept down once the next election neared. Perhaps, they suggested, the President might concede that the totals could rise again. Replied Jordan as he chewed on the ice from his umpteenth glass of Tab: "Carter is constitutionally incapable...