Word: factionalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Limit the President. Each faction in Congress has its own reason for supporting the budget reform, which would go into effect in October 1976. Conservatives see the new system as a means of battling the White House and the big spenders in Congress to achieve a balanced budget. Liberal Democrats believe that the reform would enable them to reshape Republican budgets along more progressive lines. The bill would drastically limit the President's authority to impound funds-refusing to spend money appropriated in bills that had become law. Although the political infighting over budget making is bound...
...department's conservatives believe that social theory has no place in the primarily quantitative approach to economics taught by most Harvard faculty. A moderate faction, roughly equal in size, is amenable to the inclusion of social theory in the curriculum, but only on a nonideological basis...
...department's liberal faction--called liberal because all but one of the Marxian economists are nontenured and thus are excluded from most of the department's important decision-making--are in favor of implementing the recommendations roughly as they were offered to the department in the Arrow Committee report...
HOME SECRETARY: Roy Jenkins, 54, a committed European who led the rebel Labor faction that favored Common Market membership, an issue over which he resigned from the party's shadow cabinet at one point. As Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1967 to 1970, he was credited with putting Britain back on its economic feet. He is regarded as one of Labor's most thoughtful and articulate spokesmen...
...assurances that China's diplomacy will not be affected by the new cultural revolution. Determined to keep the campaign within narrow bounds, Chou has issued warnings, echoed by provincial radio broadcasts, against getting sidetracked into such peripheral matters as "settling old scores" and "dividing into this and that faction...