Word: du
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Du Pont, calling himself the most specific of the candidates, has proposed climinating farm subsidies, said he will not raise taxes, and that he will take a harder line against the Soviets...
Kalb, who is also Murrow Professor of Press andPublic Policy, is scheduled to interviewRepublican candidate Pete du Pont IV, the formergovernor of Delaware, next Sunday
...Du Pont. As investors turn away from a free market, this stock lacks the chemistry of its corporate namesake...
...event, Iowa voters were in no mood to be patronized on the economy, as Pete du Pont learned to his mild distress. Visiting a weekly newspaper in Onawa, du Pont depicted the stock market crash as a "vote of no confidence" by millions of small investors who did not like the presidential front runners in either party. Loren Sawyer, 27, whose mother publishes the paper, was not about to let that comment pass unchallenged. "I didn't know small, grass- roots investors pulled out," said Sawyer. "I thought it was the investment banks and large firms that panicked." Du Pont...
...supports. Too much of the price-support budget goes to the wealthiest farmers. During 1985, when $23.7 billion was distributed, only one- third of U.S. farms collected price supports; almost 70% of those payments went to farmers with annual sales of $100,000 or more. Former Delaware Governor Pete du Pont, a Republican presidential contender, proposes to wean farmers from income subsidies over five years, thus producing a $5 billion savings the first year and $75 billion in total. Agrees Harvard Economist Robert Reich: "The benefit of such aid is not as great as the social costs in failing...