Word: modell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Johnson requested no new money for the U.S. supersonic transport and suggested cuts of $300 million in space spending, $540 million in farm-price supports and $120 million in foreign aid. He asked for an extra $743 million for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, mainly for its model-cities and housing-subsidy programs...
Private investment, however, will not do away with Government programs, which must continue to expand. In the Model Cities program and the Housing Act of 1968, the Nixon Administration has the 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...
...stage on which procurement decisions are pending. Initial requests from the armed forces in the 1970 budget were reported at the $100 billion figure that Schultze projects for 1974. In addition to these proposals there are potential increases in programs already authorized but underfunded. If Congress fully applied the Model Cities Program to the 130 or 140 cities involved, the annual cost could reach $4 billion or $5 billion a year. To make supplementary compensatory grants for the education of poor children wholly effective would require $3 billion. Nixon assured Henry Ford of his support...
...order to crush competitors. The suit also charged that IBM had quashed the sales prospects of newly developed rival machines by simply announcing new products of its own-even though production was a long way off. That echoed a Control Data complaint that sales of one new computer model had suffered when IBM announced the impending development of a competing model...
...Nehru jacket and tan wool bellbottoms. I basked in her admiring glance for a few moments, leaning provocatively up against a table laden with sardine sandwiches. Before I could think of something hip to say someone more immediately important than myself strode into the room. It was some famous model, with the lengthy graceful moves of a giraffe in slow-motion. "So good to see you!" screeched Leathern Petite and left me stranded. Thus began my adventure in the Wonderful World of the Boston Sound...