Word: creation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...economic area, will you give priority to tax cuts or to job-creation legislation...
Califano helped to dream up such Johnsonian innovations as the Model Cities program and the Office of Economic Opportunity. He also ran interference for Johnson in the 1966 creation of the Department of Transportation, a mammoth reorganization achieved in only eight months. One colleague recalls him, not entirely kindly, as "an empire builder who had a kind of abstract concern for the disadvantaged...
...bring the Government back into U.S. agriculture in a big way. One objective: to protect smaller operations among the U.S.'s 2.8 million farms (down from 5.4 million in 1950). This intervention will take the form of higher crop-support prices and increased crop loans coupled with creation of a national grain-reserve system to cushion farmers against price fluctuations...
...within itself extraordinary capacities of vision and creativity. Leaders of both parties and many backgrounds−Truman and Eisenhower, Vandenberg and Marshall, Acheson and Dulles−built a national consensus for responsible American world leadership based on both principle and pragmatism. The recovery of Western Europe and Japan, the creation of peacetime alliances, the shaping of the global trade and monetary system, the economic advance of newer and poorer nations, the measures to control the nuclear arms race−these constitute an enduring record of American statesmanship...
...cooperation, a will to speed up the economy, and luck, the new Administration still faces a formidable task. For example, if women and youths flood into the labor market as they did in 1976, reducing the unemployment rate by a point and a half next year would require the creation of 4.2 million new jobs-probably an impossibility. Some members of the Board of Economists worry that, in grappling with this and other economic problems, Carter and his advisers will focus too much attention on 1977, too little on what follows. A stimulus of any kind takes time to filter...