Word: poore
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kill a Government program, why not milk it? That, it seems, was the attitude of some officials who had failed to persuade Congress to stop spending some $200 million a year on fixing up run-down apartments and making them available to the poor with the help of federal rent subsidies. A report by Paul Adams, inspector general of Housing and Urban Development, suggests that the most effective way to get a housing project approved under President Reagan's HUD Secretary, Samuel Pierce, was for the developer to hire a prominent Republican as a "consultant" and pay him a substantial...
...hand agreement that cut the 1990 deficit to about $100 billion to comply with the Gramm-Rudman law. But a recession could make a mockery of that rosy projection by swelling the red ink to as much as $175 billion. "Using monetary policy to slow the economy is a poor second-best solution," says David Rolley, a senior economist at the Wall Street firm of Drexel Burnham Lambert. "Cutting the budget deficit is the proper tool. But it is late...
T.M.G. students may be allowed to pierce their ears and wear trendy hairstyles -- acts of individual expression forbidden in Japan's lockstep education system. But former Tennessee Governor Lamar Alexander hopes the Japanese will teach Americans something too. Speaking at the school's opening ceremonies, he bemoaned U.S. students' poor test scores and low high school graduation rates. "The Japanese have been careful to learn from us," he said. "Perhaps we can learn something from T.M.G...
...city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people. That's where the problem is. Are you going to build a city to accommodate more black people? Why? They don't pay taxes. Are you going to build a school system to accommodate the children of poor black people? Why? They'll want your job. They don't pay taxes...
...think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black -- or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about. We don't care whether they have babies...