Word: broad
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Creative Federalism.The final definition of HUD's responsibilities may spring from the President's "demonstration" program for cities offered to Congress in January. It calls for a $2.3 billion, six-year pilot project aimed at encouraging broad, unified plans that will prod suburban and inner-city governments into the cooperative ventures that they have so assiduously avoided in the past. Though its initial appropriation of $12 million is scarcely enough to buy 1½ miles of Manhattan subway, the program at last-and at least-recognizes that the metropolitan crisis demands a coordinated, scientific approach to quicken civic...
...away they went anyhow, 31 boats roaring out of Biscayne Bay into the heaving Gulf Stream. Within minutes, last year's Griffith winner, Bill Wishnick, was back at the dock: his co-driver Allen Brown had smashed both ankles on the jolting deck of their 28-ft. Broad Jumper. About the same time, Gar Wood Jr. bounced Orca onto a sand bar off Cape Florida, clambered out, and watched helplessly as his $150,000 craft split open and sank...
Harvard swept the first three places in the 45-yard high hurdles, as Captain Tony Lynch set a field house record at :05.7. The fifth field house record broken last night came in the high jump, where Chris Pardee reached 6-8. Pardee also won the broad jump with a 22-31 leap...
From Soviet Russia to Sumatra and across the broad Pacific to South America, Japanese businessmen smilingly signed agreements last week that will guarantee them industrial raw materials for years to come. To the Russians, the Japanese pledged $200 million in pipe and liquefication equipment with which to develop the Okha natural-gas fields of Soviet-held Sakhalin island: in return, 7,000,000 cu. ft. per year of Sakhalin gas will be shipped to Japan. In Sumatra, Japanese oilmen promised to invest $15 million to carry on offshore oilfield drilling; Indonesia will keep 39% of the oil produced...
...prospective job applicant replied, "I don't think it is feasible for the President for Congress to directly run every government agency. The President can only give most agencies broad directives and leave the details to them. In a government this size there is always going to be a dispersion of power...