Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...high unemployment play in the cycle of destruction, depopulation and ultimate demolition of urban areas. His welfare plan, now being insidiously nibbled at in Sen. Russel D. Long's (D.-La.) Finance Committee, is a basically constructive one. The $1.4 billion worth of public sector jobs and focus on low-income private employment, combined with last year's $6 billion public works stimulus package, are steps in the right direction--and about as much as can be expected from an Administration that never was full-employment oriented in the first place. The plan's tax credits and benefit increases...
Witness, for instance, Department of Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Joseph Califano's ill-fated (luckily) attempt to scrap the $5.3 billion worth of subsidies for construction and rental of low-income housing in favor of providing the same amount to welfare recipients with no strings attached. One reason the South Bronx is in such bad shape, the New York Times reports, is that welfare money is not finding its way into the housing stock...
...Little Criminals" is very uneven, with most of the unevenness apparent on the low side of the scale. For the most part, Newman's simplicity is underwhelming...
Savin President Robert K. Low told a reporter for the Wall Street Journal that 85% of the drop was due to the W.S.J. article about Conway's remarks. Low acknowledged that Savin was having a dispute with Ricoh about royalties on the copiers, but added that Ricoh was continuing to deliver machines under a contract that runs until 1989. The Dow Jones ticker, operated by the company that publishes the W.S.J., ran an item, but initially omitted the point about the contract, since both Low and the reporter agreed that it was old news. Later the ticker...
...best? while his brother, the Snopes in the woodpile, satirizes the theme by assuming the very worst of the American people and braying at them. About the gentlest outcome one can wish for is that the public gets bored, thus proving that for all Billy's low judgment of the folks, he has overestimated their attention span. In the absence of such popular fickleness, the President and his brother should try to reach some understanding. "Shut up, Billy," might be a useful presidential message. - Lance Morrow