Word: effect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Largely out of sight, deep in the labyrinth of the federal bureaucracy, Jimmy Carter is preparing for what may be the biggest battle of his presidency. As a keystone of his anti-inflation campaign, he has vowed to limit the red ink in the 1980 budget, which takes effect next October, to less than $30 billion. That will mean chopping as much as $18 billion out of the normal spending for programs that many people have come to take for granted. So department by department, determined Administration budget cutters are now looking everywhere for places to slash, and they...
...trimming is not just a necessary evil but a positive good, that spending has simply got out of hand in many instances. Says a White House aide: "We just have to look at some of these things and ask ourselves: 'What are we buying? What's the real effect?' " The ax is poised over three departments in particular: Health, Education and Welfare, HUD and Labor. They will spend $214.3 billion in fiscal 1979, or about 44% of the current $491.6 billion federal budget. Their spending, moreover, has increased in the past few years. Outlays for what is defined as "education...
Steiner, backed up by President Bok and Archibald Cox '34, Wilston Professor of Law, convinced Dean Daniel C. Tosteson '48 to appoint an ad hoc committee to make changes in the minority admission committee, which will study in effect until the year-long study is completed...
...majority of editors at Thursday's staff meeting decided it was too offensive, and was grossly at odds with the papers stated policy of condemning sexism and the exploitation of women. Those editors made a specific editorial decision--one that will, in the upcoming years, probably have a considerable effect on The Crimson's relations with its advertisers, and its readers. Because that decision strikes at issues that are central to the paper's role in the Harvard community, and tie in with crucial considerations of journalistic philosophy and ethics, those of us who disagree with it feel obliged...
...reject advertisements placed by the South Africanbased de Beers diamond mining firm. ads, it was clear, enabled one group of people to perpetrate specific economic and political injustices against the blacks of- South Africa. For us to have accepted money for those ads would have given us, in effect, clients who would use our services to help continue a monstrous system of repression and exploitation. For much the same reason, three years ago we refused advertisements from the Arabian-American Oil Company, a firm that would not hire people who happened to be black, Jewish or female...