Word: offer
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...retrospect, Davies shows no bitterness. He recalls with astonishment that after firing him Dulles telephoned to offer the use of his name as a reference. "What could I say?" asks Davies. "It was so bizarre." As Davies sees it, both he and Dulles were victims of the times. "Getting rid of me was his modus operandi with Congress," he says. "It made it easier for him to work with them. The Congress is not so naive now. It has learned to live with dissension on foreign affairs." He adds: "The State Department is catching up with the times in personnel...
...other nations - a massive contribution, not withstanding the fact that it also served U.S. policy - and supplemented the official amounts by uncounted millions in private philanthropy. The Rockefeller Foundation contribution to medicine has had worldwide benefits; the Ford Foundation is now contributing millions to pilot projects that may offer solutions to some of the problems of the cities. There is in the American temperament an evangelical conscience, and it can be aroused...
...thousands whom private industry cannot possibly take, however, the Government should offer refuge as "the employer of last resort," a concept long espoused by Nixon's urban adviser, Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Many thousands could be usefully employed as, among other things, teacher aides and police auxiliaries. Wages could run about $4,000 a year, with another $1,000 for training. Though it is impossible to say how many people would want or need this program, the Government could at least test the response this year by offering 150,000 jobs. Cost: $750 million, a part of which would be offset...
...President is offered a simple choice in determining a nation's priorities; no budget is ever enough to take care of all those who, like Oliver Twist, ask for more. In the next 18 months, the probable area of savings-about $2 billion-is not enough to take care of the demands of the cities, of education and of welfare that could easily absorb the anticipated dividend from the end of the Viet Nam war. But to raise taxes in the interim might well impede the growth of the economy, on which the maintenance of prosperity depends, and with...
Full Support. The breakthrough came after weeks of intense diplomatic maneuvering. In late December, the U.S., clearly hoping for a turn in the negotiations before the end of Lyndon Johnson's term, had begun pressuring Saigon to accept a Hanoi offer of an undemarcated round table, with the provision that the North Vietnamese would waive their demand for name plates and flags for the four delegations. Saigon demurred, still fearful that sitting at a round table with the Front would imply recognition...