Word: recommendations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nonetheless, Grassley and Kassebaum recommend an outright freeze on military spending as the only way to shock the Pentagon into the "substantive management reforms" that would buy fighting efficiency rather than military fat. Other lawmakers advance the idea of a freeze on viscerally political grounds rather than in the cause of efficiency. Their argument to the White House is in effect: Don't ask us to cut spending on food stamps and Medicare while approving higher outlays for missiles, planes, tanks and guns. If you are going to try to freeze overall spending, well, freeze everything. Then at least...
...city planning board will also recommend against the proposals as they stand. Both the board and the Cambridge Development Department have voiced concern that the assessment on developers--in the form of housing units--will greatly increase the cost of building in Cambridge and drive potential business away...
This again leads into what the Reverend Jackson did not say. He did not recommend a boycott here in the United States against all corporations doing business with South Africa. Evidently it is one thing to tell Harvard to divest and another thing to ask Americans to divest. That would mean getting rid of toasters, washing machines, radios, television sets, automobiles ad infinitum. It would mean looking for replacements made by companies not involved with South Africa or doing without the items...
Wyckoff, a widely known authority on the railroad, airline, and tracking industries, was best known for his work in transportation management and deregulation. The Marblehead, Mass, resident also visited China three times since 1979 to study transportation problems and recommend improved management methods...
...highest art form in the capital, and it is by no means clear whether Regan has the knack. The new chief of staff is typically confident. "My job," he says, "will be to see to it that we get the best compromise possible for the President or else recommend that he reject it." A Baker aide predicts a new way of doing business but the same positive results. "Baker thrived on interaction with a lot of people," he says. "Regan will rely on structure and tap other people's political skills and instincts...