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...Government to create jobs by putting money into projects such as railroads, schools and housing, but 48% favor cutting back on present spending and trying to balance the budget. At the same time, people hope the Government will somehow increase public services. Three-fifths would like Congress to enact national health insurance and a full-employment bill in which the Government would guarantee a job to everyone who wants to work...
...long run unless waste is made prohibitively expensive. Rule 2 is that energy companies will not invest the huge sums needed in costly domestic exploration for oil and gas unless they are assured of a profitable return. The best way to follow both rules would be to enact a relatively speedy dismantling of federal price controls and the awesome masses of red tape that have grown up around them. That would have to be accompanied by some measures to ease the blow to the poor-perhaps by a system of discount gasoline and heating stamps that would unfortunately entail...
...hooked, I had to have "ink." On into high school the peculiar malady stuck with me. The morning after every game I would pick up the paper and scan the sports pages for the recap of our game--and for my name. After the season I would re-enact each game from the written record provided by our friendly sportswriter...
...slopes last week, he worked for several hours on the 1977-78 budget, a proposal for a $10 billion tax cut and the State of the Union message that he will deliver on Jan. 12. He also made the surprising announcement that he would ask Congress to enact legislation to admit Puerto Rico, now a commonwealth whose residents have U.S. citizenship, as a full-fledged state...
...unit of the government's Royal Ulster Constabulary which had done a great deal with their repeated partisan Protestant stands to heighten tensions between the Catholics and Protestants. Later, he proved almost singlehandedly that the British troops' presence in Ulster was unconstitutional and forced the London government to enact legislation "legalizing" their presence...