Word: blueprinting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However, most lawmakers conceded the blueprint would fail to meet the $108 billion deficit target of the Gramm-Rudman budget-balancing law. Democrats argued it did more to cut red ink than any other option, including the president...
Boston University's Master Plan, a blueprint of the university's proposed expansion and improvement of facilities in coming years, received unanimous approval this month from a task force representing local community and business groups...
...many ways Reagan's 1988 budget seems like a wishful blueprint for a miracle. The President proposes to slash the deficit to $108 billion, the 1988 target prescribed by the Gramm-Rudman law, without a tax increase and while still boosting defense spending by 3%, after adjustment for inflation. The deficit reduction would come entirely through further cuts in social and other nondefense spending, along with short-term expedients like sales of Government assets. But private economists are almost universally doubtful that the formula can work. Charles Schultze, a Brookings Institution scholar who was President Carter's chief economic adviser...
...Admittedly, Cuomo is packaged as much as any national political candidate. However, unlike other candidates, Cuomo's media attention comes largely from the strong, confrontational stands he has been taking on issues in his speeches and in his writings. Cuomo is a man with national focus not because a blueprint designed by a small group of political operatives, but because he is a dynamic, thoughtful individual. Cohen is simply wrong--Cuomo does have a strong political ideology which he has articulated over and over again. As for taking strong, unpopular stands, Cuomo's views on the death penalty and abortion...
...billion trade surplus has sparked a worldwide protectionist outcry. He has said repeatedly that the Japanese must try to open Japan's normally inaccessible markets to world goods, though real progress has been slow. "Making Japan more open to the rest of the international community," says a government- commissioned blueprint for economic reform, "is in Japan's own national interest...