Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sharply in conflict as it seemed with Carter's view of governmental nonintervention. The "improved" Humphrey-Hawkins bill sets a five-year goal of reducing unemployment to 4% (from the current 6.4%), but no longer includes mandatory action by Government to reach that elusive level...
...Economic Policy Group, but its meetings were attended by as many as 30 second-level officials, who set up a babble of unfocused talk, while their bosses saved their serious proposals for private discussions with the President. Blumenthal organized a small "steering committee" that works out a consensus on policy over Thursday-morning breakfasts of sausages, eggs and Danish in Blumenthal's private Treasury dining room. Among those attending: Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Charles Schultze and Budget Boss James T. McIntyre Jr. Dissents are noted in reports to Carter, who of course reserves final decision for himself. But, says...
...Turner has come on like David Farragut at Mobile Bay: Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead! Turner gave orders to discharge 820 spooks. He then dismissed Deputy Director for Operations William Wells, who had carried out the firing. The admiral also surrounded himself with former naval officers as high-level subordinates...
...that: 1) the U.S. explicitly has the right to defend the canal; 2) American ships will go to the head of the line in case of emergency; and 3) the U.S. will no longer be committed to a site in Panama should traffic necessitate the building of a sea-level canal...
...that, when earlier laws were passed, research exonerating cannabis from its alleged harmful effects was repressed. It is also agreed that research at the time that linked the drug to a variety of dangers was contrived and unreliable. Yet, out of a sort of cognitive dissonance at the federal level, legislators are reluctant to admit past mistakes. Despite growing evidence attesting to beneficial medical uses of cannabis, antique laws continue to deny patients this treatment...