Word: openhandedness
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POLITICAL controversy has raged for months over the Nixon Administration's openhanded use of agricultural subsidies, and particularly over the subsidized wheat deal with the Soviets. But another huge increase in federal giveaways to a troubled-and politically powerful-industry has gone almost unnoticed. Government assistance to U.S. shipbuilders...
EVEN in good times many farmers like to complain. In Bakersfield, Calif., Joe Garone looked out over his 2,800 acres rich with cattle and cotton and said: "It used to be that we had three major problems-weather, pests and markets. Now we've got one that'...
Until the current fiscal year ends on July 1, Nixon plans to pump about $1 billion a month more than originally planned into spending programs designed to put money into the pockets of millions of currently unhappy voters. Farmers will get increased crop subsidies; federal workers will receive the maximum...
California's top ranking results partly from the fact that the state has made the legislator's job nearly full time. California pays its members $19,200 a year (highest in the nation; the average is $13,733 for two years). They meet about nine months annually. Its...
Core of the crisis was a special program approved at the 1967 Seattle convention-an openhanded, openminded plan to channel substantial cash to minority groups and projects, with the exception of those that advocate violence. Thus the most controversial grant approved by the church's Executive Council was an...