Word: budgets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...today, I could not go along with SALT II." While expressing firm doubts about the pact, he indicated that he might accept it if its ratification would mark "the turnaround of a perceived period of drift in U.S. leadership" and a commitment for a larger strategic arms budget...
...head of the council finance committee, Troy challenged Mayor Abe Beame's proposed budget. The mayor counterattacked by ousting him from his party post in Queens. On the same day, Sept. 19, 1974, federal investigators paid Troy a call, bringing along a request for his tax records. He was subsequently charged with, and pleaded guilty to, filing false income tax returns and withdrawing money from estates he managed as an attorney...
Carter has also lacked a clear economic philosophy, aside from his instinctive distrust of Big Business and of budget deficits. Apparently afraid of being captured by any single adviser, he has listened first to one and then to another. This has been reflected in White House swings of policy and shifts of focus. He has fought first unemployment, then inflation, then the energy war. At one moment Carter has preached a balanced budget and then turned around and sent Congress a health-care plan that would add $24 billion to federal spending. He has said he favors decontrol of energy...
...liberal social policies. When they breakfasted together, as they did almost every Tuesday, they found that they disagreed more about what to eat than about the kind of economic policy the nation should pursue. Like Blumenthal, Miller is committed to an all-out fight against inflation, large government and budget deficits. The new Secretary also believes in helping business and has urged tax breaks to stimulate corporate investment...
...preparation for his campaign, Brown has lately increased his overtures to his party's left wing, most of which op posed his support this year of a constitutional convention to write a budget-balancing amendment. Brown has been emphasizing his opposition to nuclear power, and now appears frequently with Tom Hayden and Jane Fonda, two leading activists. Explains one Brown aide: "Jerry has no national constituency, so Hayden and Fonda have offered him a connection to the antiwar, antinuclear crowd, and he's taken...