Word: program
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have a sense of mission and movement." Within the agency, she stressed affirmative action in promoting women, blacks and hispanics. Of Harris' appointees half are women, 21% are black and 7% are hispanics. Comptroller General Elmer Staab praised HUD, under Harris, for becoming "a forerunner in dealing with program fraud." Harris strongly pushed subsidized housing for the poor, the repair rather than abandonment of rundown buildings in public housing projects, and a graduated mortgage payment plan that helps young people buy houses by starting with low monthly payments. She worked hard, and often successfully, to channel more federal funds...
After his appointment as Energy Secretary last week, Duncan, a proven team player and a warm but not close friend of the President's, declared: "The task ahead of me is clear, to implement an energy program that will accomplish the objectives set forth by the President." A vital part of that program, he added, is nuclear energy, which "is now playing and will continue to play a very substantial role...
Countless thousands of foreign investors expressed their lack of confidence in Carter in more concrete form by dumping dollars and buying gold. In short, they were voting with their money. "We were waiting for an energy program, and the exchange rate reflects the absence of one," commented Leonida Guadenzi, vice president of the Milan Exchange, where the dollar fell sharply against the Italian lira. Added one Milan trader: "When Carter speaks, the dollar plummets...
...contradiction fundamentally rest on the President's Janus-like attitude toward the Government's role in the economy. On the one hand, he shares the public's rising distrust of Washington-dictated solutions for inflation or energy. Yet his concrete policy proposals usually involve 1960s-style programs that require big spending and larger bureaucracy. Last week's energy program would mean two new bureaucracies and $141 billion more federal spending. And as the election approaches, Carter may be tempted to reach for even more Big Government solutions to prove his effectiveness and leadership ability. Said...
Keeping the countryside poor, however, is no longer an option for Bangkok. Kriangsak declared 1979 as the "year of the farmer" and launched an ambitious $2 billion rural reform program to be renewed annually. Said Kriangsak: "Thai farmers will eventually be standing proud and tall in the coming decade...