Word: planned
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...home, the Carter plan had some early supporters. Said Heath Larry, president of the National Association of Manufacturers: "The time has come for us to join the President in attacking the problem?and stop attacking each other." Claimed a spokesman for Otto Eckstein's Data Resources, Inc., a highly respected economic think tank in Lexington, Mass.: "The President has taken as tough an approach to wage-price standards as is possible short of statutory controls. The program has a reasonable prospect of success." General Electric Chairman Reginald Jones agreed, explaining: "It was reassuring to hear the President place his main...
...neither voluntary nor mandatory restraints on wages and prices will work. "It's all just a silly game, a ritual we go through periodically. We will have inflation as long as the Federal Reserve continues to pump more money into the system." Yet the President could hardly present a plan for directing the Federal Reserve Board's policies since it is, by law, an independent agency designed to be free of political influence...
...uphill fight to rally the nation behind his plan falls mainly to the President. As he renewed his campaigning for Democrats on two political trips last week, he worked in appeals for help in the inflation fight. He drew an impressive 40,000 people on a rainy day in Nashville, and he ended his speech by asking: "Will you help me with our anti-inflation program? Will you help me?" The response from the crowd was only mildly enthusiastic. The President drew louder cheers in sunny Miami when he asked a rally of some 1,000 mostly elderly citizens: "When...
...Jesse Jackson. But Tsongas has a popular supporter too: Senator Edward Kennedy. In the past, Kennedy has never actively helped Brooke's opponents. But sensing that Brooke is in serious trouble, Kennedy has taped TV commercials in behalf of Tsongas, who in turn backs Kennedy's national health insurance plan. If Brooke loses, he will have one small consolation: the Ethics Committee will probably call off its investigation. Otherwise, the probe will...
Butcher last month got the Carter Administration to endorse a $12.5 million federal grant for Energy Expo, a sort of world's fair planned for 1982 in Knoxville. Carter announced approval of the plan even before Commerce Department officials had cleared their share of the grants. "That's why I'm going to make a good Governor," Butcher said last week. "I'm going to have this same kind of influence over the President when I'm Governor...