Word: nixon
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This cap has made it virtually impossible for Harvard to issue tax-exempt bonds to help fund the construction of buildings, according to Harvard's Director for Governmental Relations Nan F. Nixon, who lobbies in Washington...
...What it has done is it has knocked two dozen private institutions out of tax-exempt financing," says Nixon, whose chief areas of concern for Harvard are taxation and student aid. Harvard is "out of the market" and "significantly" over the cap, Nixon adds...
...Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D--N.Y.) is the lead sponsor of a bill to remove the provision, and it could be passed this year, Nixon says...
...tries to fathom the course of that great surge by linking the personal experiences of a few migrants to a tale of big-city politicking in Chicago, one of their chief destinations. He frames that story within an account of how three successive White House administrations, from Kennedy through Nixon, were consumed by a debate over federal antipoverty efforts -- a Washington policy war that combined the worst features of academic detachment and fang-baring political ambition. His heroes are the migrants who managed to clamber into the middle class, mostly on the narrow foothold of modest government jobs. His villains...
Cavanaugh agrees that these ideals of empowerment have been floating around for quite some time: Nixon termed it the "New Federalism," and Reagan called it the "New American Revolution...