Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...speeches heated up the debate between Carter and Reagan over which party is responsible for the U.S.'s falling behind the Soviets in defense spending. Carter claims that defense expenditures were reduced 35% during the Nixon and Ford Administrations. That is basically correct, since outlays dropped dramatically as the Viet Nam War ended. But Republican White House budget requests were trimmed still further by the Democratic Congress...
...partly the President's style. He likes to deal with detail. He likes to have an answer on every issue that appeals to his engineering mind as being quantitatively correct in as substantial a way as possible. I think most politicians tend to move in a different way; to look at the broader political dimensions of a problem...
...will now follow. Said he: "The commitment I seek is not to outworn views, but to old values that will never wear out. Programs may sometimes become obsolete, but the ideal of fairness always endures. Circumstances may change, but the work of compassion must continue. It is surely correct that we cannot solve problems by throwing money at them; but it is also correct that we dare not throw national problems onto a scrap heap of inattention and indifference. The poor may be out of political fashion, but they are not without human needs. The middle class may be angry...
Halevy insisted that his story was correct. Appearing before a Knesset commit tee, Achituv said that he had asked, well before the start of the bombing investigation, to resign at the end of the year. But Achituv flatly refused to discuss whether, as Halevy charged, Shin Bet did have strong pointers to the identity of the would-be assassins, who have yet to be arrested. Commented the independent daily Haaretz: "Doubts remain - if not with regard to the reasons for the security service director's resignation, then with regard to the investigation of the assassination attempts...
...suggested that we help those families/individuals trapped in the ghettos of our cities and treat them in much the same way that we do foreign refugees-by sponsoring and relocating them and helping them to become productive members of our society. Her suggestion seems so simple and obviously correct that I wondered why it never occurred...