Word: democratics
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More than 20 months have passed since the oil embargo of 1973, but the U.S. still lacks a comprehensive nation al energy policy. The Democrat-dominated Congress dislikes the Administration's energy platform, but has failed to produce an alternative. Just last week the House trounced the Ways and Means Committee's proposals to boost federal gasoline taxes and slap a tax on low-mileage automobiles. At the same time, the OPEC cartel announced that oil prices would be going up in October (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS...
...Wagner, a Democrat first, last and always, was mayor of New York from...
With Nedzi's committee incapacitated and the Rockefeller Commission's report handed in, the job of pursuing the investigation of the CIA was left in the hands of the Senate committee. Under Church, a liberal Democrat from Idaho who may run for his party's presidential nomination in 1976, the committee has been zealously holding private hearings since May 15. After the Rockefeller Commission handed in its report, Church accused it of ducking the assassination issue. As to the Vice President's claim that the CIA was not guilty of "major" sins, Church angrily declared...
...tone if not in specifics, these adverse judgments reflect the view of Truman's contemporary enemies, who considered him a clay idol with human feet. The now beloved Missouri Democrat had the dubious distinction of scoring the lowest Gallup popular-approval rating (23%) ever accorded a President-lower even than Nixon's 24%. In fact, Harry Truman's entire career was riddled with paradox and contradiction. Although he was so scrupulous that even in the White House he used his own stamps on personal letters, Truman was the product of Boss Pendergast's corrupt Kansas City...
Okun, a senior fellow at Brookings, an influential liberal Democrat and a member of TIME's Board of Economists, questions the social sensitivity of capitalism. The free market, he maintains, allows "the big winners to feed their pets better than the losers can feed their children," and if left to itself, "would sweep away all other values, and establish a vending machine society." Yet the market also permits decentralization of management, encourages experimentation and innovation, and limits the power of the state to transgress on personal freedoms; by doing so, it provides incentives for work and massive production that...