Word: paye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crises hauntingly reminiscent of those that preceded the Civil War and the Depression. As if verging on a national nervous breakdown, the U.S. in 1968 erupted in ghastly events: assassinations, black riots, student protests, rising crime. America faced a crisis of pluralism: warring groups and individuals refused to pay the price, whether in money or changed attitudes, that might broaden social justice. A decade that began with a quest for moral grandeur seemed to be ending on the defensive, mired in the sheer effort to keep society from exploding...
...local communities from the notion that they cannot help themselves. The Government can dramatize the issues, provide the example, and spend its money in new ways that release private energies on a far greater scale. Ideally, it could also set a new standard for federal officials' performance. Promotion and pay raises might well go mainly to officials who liquidate their programs fastest and release more money for new federal efforts. The goal should be to enlarge federal leadership and contract federal bureaucracy at the same time...
...managing the nation's economy, President Nixon's freedom of maneuver will be fairly circumscribed at first; he inherits from Johnson a budget that can be altered and amended but whose thrust and direction derive from past commitments and certain built-in increases, such as mandated pay raises for civil servants and the armed forces. Nor can he redirect the course of spending from the huge reservoir of obligations previously authorized by Congress (current total: $190 billion...
...Rural Electrification Administration to subsidize rural cooperatives with 2% loans. Congress should also be shamed into cutting the $4.6 billion a year that goes for pork-barrel public-works projects. The nation owes a great deal to its veterans, but there is a question as to whether it need pay them $600 million a year for low (10-30%) disability ratings. Other savings undoubtedly could be made in other areas after a careful reassessment of priorities...
...passed. Most important were measures to double King County's debt limit and to enable the county to borrow on behalf of its 30 cities. They permitted the county to finance its capital improvements with long-term bonds, which the area's 1,000,000 residents would pay off through modest increases in real estate taxes. All minorities. Something else came of all the careful preparation. The people of King County discovered a new sense of commitment. "From the beginning," says Ellis, "Forward Thrust rejected the idea of compulsion, as implied in a plan imposed from above. Communities...