Word: cutbacks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Regarding support for Israel, 41% favor a cutback in military aid, while 37% think it should continue at present levels, and 8% would increase it. National sentiment, according to these results, has scarcely changed in the past year. But 63% of those surveyed believe that the U.S. should not sell arms to either Israelis or Arabs...
...translated that into figures. He outlined a "rock bottom" spending program for the next fiscal year. His $2.82 billion budget is up only 1.83% over the current year, and represents the smallest increase in 20 years. He called for no pay raises for state employees, a $15 million cutback in optional parts of Medicaid, a freeze on enrollments at state colleges, a reduction in scholarship assistance, lowered daily food allowances in state institutions, and a hold-the-line policy on aid to local schools...
Democrats began to take a more relaxed view of the President's program. "Why adopt draconian measures?" said one Senate aide. "There's no magic in a 1 million-bbl.-per-day oil cutback that would deflate the economy and shoot up unemployment. There has still been no coherent, clear explanation why we should put on this hair shirt." Said Democratic Whip Robert Byrd: "Let's take first things first-let's stop the recessionary slide, create jobs, cut taxes." Similar advice came from the citadel of conservative economic policy. Arthur Burns cautioned: "The President...
...rethink his opposition to the cheese souffle, the rice and bean casserole, and the friendly omelette? Who knows? He might even decide to live in a co-op like Radcliffe's Jordan K, where, as in the real world, switching to five meaty days a week would be no cutback. Adam Glass...
...necessary things: conserve energy, develop new sources and stockpile oil in case of another embargo or cutback...