Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...space program is the only Government agency working for our future; we shouldn't be so purblind to our children's needs as to cut its funds short...
Westerners resent the bureaucratic decision to cut Amtrak service, something far more vital to Butte and Cheyenne than to Nashville or Columbus, and the general disregard of the gas crunch until it hit the East. Montana's Democratic Governor Thomas Judge, among other Western Governors, put out an urgent plea to the Department of Energy for help in securing diesel fuel for crop harvesting Said Judge: "I got absolutely nowhere I had to go out myself and buy 75,000 barrels from New York...
...basis of my conversations with the President that he has a good understanding of the problems," Volcker said later. His other consideration: moving from the New York Federal Reserve Bank presidency to the chairmanship of the whole system involves, because of the federal pay structure, taking a salary cut from $110,000 to $57,000. He accepted the next morning...
When John Sawhill was profiled five years ago, he had already made a career switch from the business world, where he was a $100,000-a-year senior vice president of the Commercial Credit Co., to the Federal Government. He took a $60,000 salary cut in 1973 to become an associate director of the Office of Management and Budget. Within a year, he was head of the Federal Energy Office, forerunner of the Department of Energy...
Sawhill proposed then radical methods of cutting fuel consumption, like setting thermostats at 78° F in the summer. Bicycling to a Face the Nation interview was one of the ways he dramatized the need for conservation. He also advocated a 10?-to 30?-per-gal. increase in the gasoline tax to cut consumption. The move displeased President Ford, who encouraged him to resign...