Word: planned
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...articles and testimony, Boskin, a Stanford professor, advocates a concise plan. Among his ideas: 1) reduce the size of federal spending as a proportion of the Gross National Product; 2) balance the budget over the length of the business cycle, accumulating surpluses in good years that can be used for tax cuts in hard times; 3) require the Federal Reserve Board to announce a "moderate and predictable" rate of monetary expansion-about 5% to 6%-and stick to it; 4) eliminate the personal income...
...restrict most further immigration to the wives and children of male heads of families already legally settled in Britain; that would chiefly affect nonwhites, since many would-be white immigrants would be admitted under a provision allowing immigration of persons who have a British-born grandparent. Under the Tory plan, the new Commonwealth inflow would drop in twelve months from the 1978 total of 42,939 to as low as 28,000, and would further decline over the next five years to under 5,000 annually. Also, those who are admitted would have to prove they can support themselves without...
Since then, rail and bus services and housing programs have been improved. Now it looks as if Soweto may get electricity too. A consortium of South African banks has begun to issue government-guaranteed loans for a $177 million electrification program. If all goes according to plan, some 22,000 residents should get electricity in three months, although it will take four years to bring power to all of the township's 1 million residents...
...they could undermine free speech, encourage the suppression of ideas and possibly lead to book burnings. Says Harvard Law Professor Alan M. Dershowitz: "Women who would have the government ban sexist material are the new McCarthyites. It's the same old censorship in radical garb." But feminists, who plan to take their fight to state legislatures, insist that the issue is violence against women, not free speech. Says Brownmiller: "It's a myth that obscenity and pornography are protected by the First Amendment...
...capsulizes the status of 24 major bills, regulations, court cases and other issues. The magazine has even begun to crack a smile on occasion. Not long ago, for instance, Correspondent Richard Corrigan parodied Howard Cosell in an article about the congressional battle over President Carter's first energy plan...