Word: broads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most vivd examples of broad federal cuts in the Reagan plan that will slice into Harvard research projects is the expected 75 per cent reduction in the social and economic divisions...
...right-wing government of General Carlos Romero in 1979. The new junta, however, began to disintegrate just three months later when every civilian cabinet member resigned in opposition to the military's domination of government. Many of those disenchanted civilians joined the forces of the Revolutionary Democratic Front, the broad popular coalition pressing for revolutionary change in El Salvador...
...Spending. As he pledged, Reagan proposed reductions in an extraordinarily broad range of federal activities (see following story). In percentage terms some of the cuts would be very deep, and in dollar amounts they recall the celebrated witticism of the late Everett McKinley Dirksen: "A billion here, a couple of billion there-first thing you know it adds up to be real money." Many of the reductions would indeed be in the $1 billion-to-$2 billion range next fiscal year, and they add up to very real money: an estimated $41.4 billion in fiscal 1982, $123.8 billion by fiscal...
...upon the academic reveries of the historians and political scientists as something-at last-real. He is no longer celluloid. "There is a logic to his boldness," says Porter. "Something less would lead to a feeling of uncertainty. It is more difficult to achieve a modest change than a broad change where everyone is involved...
...height of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society flourishes, when the polls began showing that increase in public alienation. "Lyndon Johnson forgot to ask for a tax increase to pay for the Viet Nam War," Boiling says wryly, "and that was the breaking point. In the absence of a broad overall concept, people retreated to their own interests. Society became fractionalized, and the interest groups exacerbated that. No President and no Congress can reorganize the Government now without a great deal of support from concerned citizens. Big Business and Big Labor also have to come together...