Word: rebuilder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dust had scarcely settled on the ruins of the Senate foreign aid bill when the Administration set out to rebuild the program out of the rubble. The White House started at once to try to reverse the stunning 41-to-27 defeat. National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger, in daily consultation with President Nixon, put together a high-level, high-pressure lobbying campaign that sent Cabinet members scrambling to the rescue of foreign aid. Secretary of State William Rogers pleaded with a hostile Senate Foreign Relations Committee to put the program back together. Defense Secretary Melvin Laird warned that the moment...
Implementation of his program begins with tax incentives for owners of buildings to rebuild or renovate. This has the effect of withholding housing from the Underemployed Housing market, because Premium and Worker Housing deteriorate less slowly, while simultaneously prolonging the life-span of New Enterprise--which increases upward job mobility for all classes. Forrester states that the goal of this policy should be to remove 5 per cent of the Underemployed Housing per year while using the land cleared in this manner to build new industries. The new industries would raise the income levels of Underemployed neighborhoods, which would permit...
...tempting to conjure up larger coups. Perhaps a joint U.S.-Soviet effort to land a spaceship on Mars by 1980. Perhaps a new American Constitution, with state boundaries abolished, regional governments formed and the Federal Government restructured. Or, after the economic freeze, a new, domestic Marshall Plan to rebuild the cities. None of these vistas is much more implausible than that of Richard Nixon waving to a million smiling Chinese as he glides through the gates of the Forbidden City in Peking...
...Saturday morning, anxious to hurry over for good seats at AldrichDexter Field. Unfortunately for gridiron players, the soccer team plays at that field. There's no soccer game this morning, so before the freshman class and the Brown band, which gets credit for being there, the Bruins begin a rebuilding year. Brown is always rebuilding, and they usually rebuild to the tune of two victories. This is one of them...
...morning, anxious to hurry over for good seats at Aldrich-Dexter Field. Unfortunately for gridiron players, the soccer team plays at that field. There's no soccer game this morning, so before the freshman class and the Brown band, which gets credit for being there, the Bruins begin a rebuilding year. Brown is always rebuilding, and they usually rebuild to the tune of two victories. This is one of them...