Word: implementation
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Johnson shrewdly defused disputation in advance by taking a flexible position on the touchy questions of undergraduate deferment and whether to replace or reorganize the system of local draft boards. Nor does he intend to rush out executive orders-as he has the power to do-to implement the lottery scheme and some other proposals. Congress has until June 30 to renew and amend the draft law, and in so doing it may apply legislative controls to some areas in which the President now has sole jurisdiction. But Johnson's go-slow approach gives Congress time to make...
...leadership. It seems most probable that even the more humble Party members in 1956 had a fairly clear idea as to who were their leaders and what were the policies. Now, however, a Party cadre must have great uncertainties regarding his superiors, and the policies he is supposed to implement are increasingly shrouded in clouds of rhetoric that could puzzle the most sophisticated...
...Including a written exam containing essay questions on how to solve L.A. policing problems through 1970, implement recent court decisions, cooperate with city government, improve community relations...
...efforts that have failed most conspicuously in the past. Half the states and many cities now have some kind of air-pollution legislation; about 15 more states are expected to act this year. Some of the states that have such statutes, however, have failed to adopt realistic regulations to implement them. In some cases, regulatory commissions are heavily weighted with representatives of industry. Four of the nine members of the New Jersey commission, for instance, represent companies identified by the U.S. Public Health Service as significant contributors to pollution...
...which account for 90% of Britain's steel output, will be merged into one huge state-owned Na tional Steel Corp. Smaller companies will be left in private hands. The cost to the government will be enormous: $1.5 billion to buy out the shareholders, plus millions more to implement ambitious reorganization plans. Laborites argued that the industry, which ranks fifth in the world (after the U.S., Russia, Japan and West Germany), needed to be modernized and reorganized to stop wasteful duplication. No one could dispute the fact that many of the plants are overstaffed, turn out shod dy, overpriced...