Word: dollar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...coalition of support; Carter's will be to hold on to his. The Georgian will attack Ford for "indecisiveness," claiming that he would be not only a better manager but a more aggressive one. When a Senate committee charged last week that the Medicaid program was beset by multibillion-dollar fraud and inefficiency, Carter wondered where the President had been while the mess was brewing: "Sitting in the White House, perhaps,timid, fearful, afraid to lead, afraid to manage...
...doctrine. For the most part, the candidates give the purists little to worry about. All five call for more jobs in the public sector, passage of the Humphrey-Hawkins full-employment bill, national health insurance, a U.S. takeover of welfare, and federal assistance to New York City-all multibillion-dollar programs that would sharply increase budget deficits or taxes or both. In heavily Jewish New York City, moreover, the candidates cannot do enough for Israel...
...especially Moynihan-part company. Though a committed liberal on domestic matters, he believes in a strong and assertive America. He accuses his opponents of hypocrisy because they demand all-out aid for Israel at the same time they insist on trimming the Pentagon budget. "Bella has never voted a dollar for American defense," he claims. "Never one single dollar. It is against this kind of demagoguery that I'm running...
...solution is at hand. The deficit-ridden Met, needing every dollar it can get, has decided to go into the "live" record business. That means it is beginning to release its rich legacy of 45 years of Saturday afternoon radio broadcasts. A donation of $100 or more to the Metropolitan Opera Fund will bring the entire performance of Tristan broadcast on Feb. 8, 1941. The sound has been ably transferred from the original transcription discs by RCA Records (which donated its production costs...
...hottest subindustries in the popular-entertainment field. In terms of the hit singles that can now be made, the stereo and quad equipment that can be peddled to the club owners, and the crowds that can be drawn in at $5 or more a head, disco is a multimillion-dollar business...