Word: reductionisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Late Saturday afternoon President Carter called an emergency Cabinet meeting. The goal: to help organize federal aid for the hardest-hit regions. He instructed the Cabinet officers to take the initiative by going to the individual states and asking "What can we do to help you?" Among the moves under...
The first signal that the game was renewed came last week when, in his first interview as President, Carter expanded his Inaugural Address pledge of "perseverance and wisdom in our efforts to limit the world's armaments." In a talk with the Associated Press and United Press International, he...
2) Single people who earn no more than $15,000 and couples who earn no more than $17,500 would get a permanent income tax reduction totaling $4 billion a year.
The price reduction there would be matched by price increases for rooms in the most popular River Houses. A "grandfather clause" would exempt students already living there from the increase, of course. Scholarship students would be partially exempted, too, in the interests of equity. To maintain Radcliffe's four-year...
Public service employment has its limitations. Without controls, the program can create "leaf-raking" employment and end up padding state and local payrolls without producing a net reduction in unemployment. Critics have called it "a revenue sharing program pretending to be a manpower program." A rule of thumb that has...