Word: daniell
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nation's economic growth flattened out and the middle class began losing ground. That dissonance helped to create Ronald Reagan. Americans bought the Reagan solution: cut welfare programs, or at least slow their rate of increase, to strengthen defense and give people more to spend through tax cuts. Says Daniel Yankelovich, the public opinion analyst: "They were uneasy about doing so because they suspected that millions of poor people would get hurt, but they accepted the Reagan approach because they agreed that something was badly amiss with the liberal theory of Government-backed entitlements. But Reagan's personal 'goodness' seemed...
...current push for welfare reform, led nationally by New York Senator Daniel Moynihan and Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, is the best example of this approach. It is based on two truths: that unconditional aid leads to long-standing dependency and that the impoverished children of this nation cannot merely be abandoned. The new approach -- being tried with some success in states such as Massachusetts, California, New Jersey and New York -- is to require recipients to enter training and job-placement programs. In some of the proposals, the Federal Government would become the employer of last resort...
Nicaragua's comandantes believe the army can readily handle the military threat posed by the contras. "We expect we will have mercenaries in Nicaragua for a long time, but we have made many advances in cutting their social base," President Daniel Ortega Saavedra recently told TIME. "They are now a weakened, reduced force." The President's younger brother, General Humberto Ortega Saavedra, the Defense Minister and an increasingly visible member of the Sandinista directorate, concurs. Of last week's attack in Managua, he says, "They have moved to this kind of activity because they have no political program. But this...
...baboons and chimpanzees, among other beasts, creates an urgency to move swiftly to tests on humans. Last week, after months of rumors within the scientific community, it was confirmed that this dramatic leap has been taken in vaccine research. In a letter in the British journal Nature, Dr. Daniel Zagury, an AIDS investigator at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris, described a bold experiment: he had inoculated himself in November with a potential AIDS vaccine...
...acquiring graves, villas, and coastal retreats, Harvard does not actively seek such facilities due to the problems of management and finance, according to Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54. He says he does not foresee any new acquisitions of this type in the near future...