Word: caspar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Policy. Caspar ("Cap the Knife") Weinberger, head of Reagan's budget policy group, said the new boss would hold federal spending in fiscal 1981, which began Oct. 1, to $620 billion, about $25 billion below the levels contemplated by Carter. Reagan's advisers accepted a proposal by Texas Senator John Tower to add $3 billion to the $157 billion in military spending recommended by Carter this fiscal year. Military pay would be raised an extra 2%, on top of the 11.7% increase already moving toward enactment. Tower also advocated an increase in military outlays of 10% a year...
Secretary of the Treasury. Alan Greenspan, who was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Ford and helped reduce double-digit inflation to less than 5%, is a leading contender. Another is Caspar Weinberger, who was Reagan's first finance director in Sacramento and who also served as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under Nixon...
...decrease the clout of the White House staff. Most incoming regimes give lip service to that idea; Reagan would be more likely to follow through. To fill Cabinet posts, he would seek men widely recognized as experienced, competent and stable. Speculation centers on such Washington veterans as George Shultz, Caspar Weinberger and Charls Walker, all onetime Nixon Administration policymakers. Two Democratic Senators, Henry Jackson of Washington and Sam Nunn of Georgia, are mentioned often. In the Reaganites' view, either would provide good performance and good public relations...
...backyard conservationists often produce remarkable results in a tiny space. In Elgin, Ill., Derr and Peggi Andrlik's 140-ft. by 140-ft. lot is shared by 100 ducks, red foxes, squirrels, wood-chucks and a doe, as well as Pedro and Caspar, two pyrrhuloxias that have taken up residence 1,500 miles from their natural home in Mexico. A habitat in Thomasville, Ga., owned by the Robert Boissieres, abounds with shrubs, trees, vines, wild flowers and grasses; it has become a refuge for a wide variety of birds, including an occasional giant pileated woodpecker. Now that...