Word: departmentment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unfortunately, the liberal response to Reagan's message usually went something like this. Reagan says, "There's a useless layer of bureaucracy up on top of HEW [the Department of Health, Education and Welfare]. And it costs HEW three dollars in overhead to deliver one dollar to a needy person...
Yet this year's rally has rested on some shaky foundations. Chief among them is the relentless pace of corporate takeovers, which enriched everyone on Wall Street, from stockholders to investment bankers. But the buyouts have been fueled by financing from a junk-bond market that was severely weakened last...
Meanwhile, the Government's chief early-warning gauge of inflation indicated last week that the U.S. economy may be headed for trouble. The Labor Department said its Producer Price Index rose 0.9% in September, or about 10% on an annual basis, to break a three-month string of declining wholesale...
Or did he? If Washington was "the problem" when Reagan took office in 1981, it looks like a costly irrelevancy today. After almost nine years of the Reagan Revolution, Americans may wonder whether the Government -- from Congress to the White House, from the State Department to the Office of Management...
In its day-to-day conduct of affairs, meanwhile, the Federal Government is suffering from malnutrition. The Administration still has not nominated anyone for 77 senior Cabinet department positions. The Departments of Interior, Education, Labor and Health and Human Services have become nearly invisible.The Federal Aviation Administration's staff is...