Word: planned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tough ones right away.' " So the President immediately threw a couple of tough ones into the hopper. Once again, he has asked for his hospital cost containment program, which was shelved last session after fierce lobbying by the medical profession. He also submitted a wage insurance plan, which is supposed to give unions an incentive to moderate their demands for pay raises. Under the plan, workers who accept wage increases of 7% or less would be compensated by the U.S. Government should inflation exceed 7%. Neither program is given much chance of passing, but the President is pushing them...
...economy heads toward recession, as some economists predict, frugality might quickly lose its popularity. Tip O'Neill has told Carter that if unemployment (currently 5.9%) reaches 6.3%, the President had better have an economic stimulus plan ready. "If you don't," O'Neill warns, "we will." But others feel that inflation has gone too far to be neglected once a downturn begins...
Undeterred, Long had to move fast, since the full Democratic caucus would meet the next day to ratify committee assignments. "There's more than one way to skin a cat," confided a Long intimate. "You lose the first way, then you fall back on plan B." Long decided to increase the size of his Finance Committee by adding another Democrat and Republican. But that meant reducing the size of somebody else's committee, a treacherous undertaking amid a group that so jealously guards its prerogatives. But Long had a friend in Mississippi's John Stennis, chairman...
...Budget having what amounted to carte blanche to cut, Cabinet officers quickly realized that appeals to the White House over OMB reductions were pointless. At the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, for instance, one of the few new programs to survive OMB scrutiny was a $38 million plan for improving mental health services by the states, and, said one HEW official, "that was only because Rosalynn Carter chairs the President's Commission on Mental Health...
...correspondents up in a tent." The cost of maintaining a Peking bureau can be high (upwards of $100,000 a year for print journalists, even more for the larger TV crews), partly because so much equipment must be imported; old Peking hands say that newcomers should plan to bring not only their own cars but also a year's supply of parts and motor oil. Nonetheless, a bureau in China is less expensive than in places such as Tokyo, Paris and London...