Word: program
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Having said that, Nixon catalogued 18 important programs that he has put to Capitol Hill, including reform of the welfare system, sharing of federal revenue with the states and cities, overhaul of the draft and the Post Office, and tax revision. Congress, to be sure, has been slow to act on Nixon's recommendations-or to do anything else for that matter. But the Administration has been late in developing its program and rarely energetic in promoting it. What Nixon wanted on the record were his large and good intentions: "We intend to begin a decade of government reform...
...frontier, moving them into political and civic action work inside China to help heal the wounds caused by Chairman Mao Tse-tung's Cultural Revolution. The Soviets resume a degree of aid to China, mainly in industrial credits, but offer no assistance to China's burgeoning nuclear program...
...drive to recruit black faculty members, who presently number 25 in a full-time staff of 1,500. Warned the professors: "If a faculty member can be fired for entertaining radically divergent views about the structure of our society and the solutions to its problems, this recruitment program will become a mockery." Risking his job, Chancellor Young backed up his professors, calling the Angela Davis case "a problem of the greatest gravity-perhaps the most serious yet in a series of difficulties which have confronted this academic community...
...earlier FDA test had shown chromosome breakage in rats that were injected with cyclohexylamine, a metabolic product of cyclamate. Concluded Dr. Verrett, "I don't recommend cyclamate for chicks, and I don't recommend it for people." After discussing the results of her work on a television program, she drew an immediate rebuttal from FDA Commissioner Dr. Herbert Ley Jr. "Cyclamates are safe within the present state of knowledge and scientific opinion available to me," he said...
Thirty minutes and one program later, Joe had brazened his way to one of the biggest TV surprises since his New York Jets won football's Super Bowl. Television, after all, is already surfeited with football, with talk shows and lowbrow entertainment. The Playboy After Dark series, by another TV interloper. Hugh Hefner, is all pretension and forced fun. Yet somehow, as U.S. viewers discovered in the premiere last week, Joe's show had an insouciance, a spontaneity and a genuine joie de vivre that even congenital Namath haters must have found infuriatingly engaging...