Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Spending programs began to be cranked up. A bipartisan group of ten Senators, including Hugh Scott, introduced a bill to expand public service employment by 1 million jobs, at an annual cost of about $7.8 billion. In a joint statement, two of the cosponsors, G.O.P. Senator Jacob Javits and Democrat Harrison Williams, declared: "The nation is moving at alarming speed toward Depression-like levels of unemployment in terms of absolute numbers-the truly human measure." By that they mean that given the much larger U.S. population today, the number of individual...
...been called a Communist, a socialist, a conservative." Yet his views actually have been largely consistent through the years, so much so that some people suspect that his mind is closed to new ideas. On domestic issues, he has shown himself to be a middle-of-the-road Democrat: backing labor but friendly to business, backing conservation but fighting against "environmental extremists," backing social legislation but opposing radical solutions. On questions of defense and foreign policy he is unyieldingly conservative: deeply suspicious of the Soviet Union, stridently in favor of new weapons like the B-l bomber and the Trident...
...ECONOMY. The recession gives an extraordinary opportunity to any Democrat who can produce a convincing alternative to Ford's program. Jackson has always believed that the power of the Government is the most effective way to bring order to the marketplace (see interview page 19). Among other things, he has proposed setting a national goal of 2.6 million housing starts a year, including 2 million federally subsidized units for low-and middle-income families, creating a temporary agency to provide emergency capital funds to business and giving the Government the authority to delay wage and price hikes. Such views...
...shaky one at that. Although 20 parties failed to win any seats at all, the top ten picked up 243. But the seats were distributed in such a way that it will require a minimum of four parties to form even a slim majority. The middle-of-the-road Democrat Party, which headed the opposition to Thailand's military rule for three decades, led with 72 seats. Party Leader Seni Pramoj, while conceding that he "was heading straight for trouble," immediately announced that he would try to form a coalition with three or four other moderate and rightist parties...
...Smith, head of the Kennedy Library Corporation and brother-in-law to the late president, has destroyed the report's credibility as a technical document. Robert T. Griffin, the GSA administrator who sent the documents to Smith before the agency's experts had examined it, is a long time Democrat who it appears, placed his loyalty to the Kennedy family over his responsibility to the people of Cambridge. He should resign or be removed from his post...