Word: funded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tools ? money excepted ? to make real improvement in the lives of millions. Model Cit ies is important because it tackles the slums from all angles, forcing city administrations to plan far more efficiently than they have ever done before. Unfortunately, the program has never been adequately funded. To make it work, Nixon should increase this year's allotment of $625 million to at least a billion, next year's to $1.5 billion. He should also adequately fund the Housing Act, which seeks, through subsidies, to build or rehabilitate 6,000,000 low-income units...
...same time, the Administration should improve the federal court and rehabilitation systems and fund...
...abuse of the environment. Day by day, Americans are destroying the landscape and poisoning the air they breathe and the water they drink. The Johnson Administration was partly successful in stopping the trend; the Nixon Administration should do far more. It should vigorously enforce and fully fund existing antipollution laws. If they prove insufficient, it ought to ask Congress for even tougher measures. It must also act swiftly to preserve scenic areas, waterfronts and unspoiled islands. Fortunately, the country still has many deserving areas. It might also help local governments fund more parks near cities, and if they still cannot...
...average 6-7% annually, tax revenues will increase faster than federal expenses. This will produce a dividend of $8 billion in 1971 and thereafter climb impressively to $35-$40 billion by 1974. By applying the fiscal dividend as he sees fit, Nixon will have discretionary power to fund new programs, increase old ones, reduce taxes-or indeed, some combination of these...
...Admissions Office sit-in by militant black students. A Harvard man ('38) and Rhodes Scholar himself, Smith was one of the country's youngest college presidents when he assumed office at the small, Quaker-founded liberal arts school. A determinedly academic president, he shunned the role of fund raiser to concentrate on improving the quality of Swarthmore's faculty and curriculum. When 20 black students staged the current sit-in to dramatize their demands for greater black enrollment and a black studies program, the usually imperturbable Smith began to despair. "We have lost something precious here...