Word: daniells
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...future historian "impotence, not omnipotence, may appear to be the remarkable feature of Government in the closing decades of the 20th century." While the Federal Government collects taxes with ruthless efficiency, it can no longer move the mails with dispatch; it spends vast sums on welfare, but Sociologist Daniel Moynihan says that it is "highly unreliable" as an instrument for ameliorating the lot of urban Negroes. The multitude of social programs through which it administers welfare funds lack central direction. Drucker believes that the central Government is trying to do too many things that should be left to other organizations...
...thousands whom private industry cannot possibly take, however, the Government should offer refuge as "the employer of last resort," a concept long espoused by Nixon's urban adviser, Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Many thousands could be usefully employed as, among other things, teacher aides and police auxiliaries. Wages could run about $4,000 a year, with another $1,000 for training. Though it is impossible to say how many people would want or need this program, the Government could at least test the response this year by offering 150,000 jobs. Cost: $750 million, a part of which would be offset...
...Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the executive secretary of President Nixon's Urban Affairs Council, has appointed four Harvard-connected men to be among his six assistants...
...same time, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Nixon's chief urban advisor, has appointed as his deputy Stephen Hess, who last year was a fellow at the Institute of Polities of the John Fitzgerald Kennedy School of Government. Hess is a former Eisenhower aide who recently coauthored a book about political cartoons in America, The Ungentlemanly...
...Federal Reserve is likely to maintain such pressure until it stifles the inflationary psychology that has gripped investors, businessmen and consumers. "We have to knock out the notion that inflation is a built-in way of life," says Daniel H. Brill, senior adviser to the board. The faster businessmen get that message, the less painful the effects of slowing down the economy should...