Word: moynihanized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...White House spokesman called the letter "unfortunate" and "not the President's viewpoint," while Ronald Reagan himself made excuses for his impolitic Secretary at a midweek press conference. The obligatory resolution denouncing Watt was introduced by twelve Democratic Senators, including New York's Daniel Moynihan, who described the letter as "bareknuckled bigotry...
Others who have spoken in recent years include West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. Sen Daniel P. Moynihan (D.N.Y.) and former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance...
...heads the House Select Committee on Aging, wondered if television cameras would be required to leave the meeting after ten minutes. "Absolutely not," said Economist Alan Greenspan, the commission's chairman. The TV crews could stay as long as they liked. Meanwhile, Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York was incensed about the entire proceedings. Heinz's proposal was fine for the future, he said, but "we are facing a crisis of the present." Since the Senate Budget Committee "ordered this commission to cut $40 billion," Moynihan complained, "we've been told in advance what...
...gratifying reception for a President who has not heard a lot of applause lately. But elsewhere his plan is sure to provoke as many boos as cheers. Republican Bob Packwood of Oregon and Democrat Daniel Moynihan of New York introduced a tuition tax credit bill in the Senate in 1977, and a bitter debate has been raging ever since. Indeed, even as Reagan basked in last week's cheers, opponents of the program were mobilizing...
...from the current year, and the five-year forecast calls for spending a total of $1.6 trillion, an amount that Ronald Reagan might try to make comprehensible by describing a stack of dollar bills 107,000 miles high. Reflecting on these towering sums, New York Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan flatly predicts: "The proposed defense increases aren't going to take place...