Word: reportable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among 150 specific recommendations in the Douglas report, the biggest and costliest is a revenue-sharing plan that would turn back to state and local governments 2% of federal revenues, some $6 billion a year. Says the report: "The federal tax system, with all its faults, is more progressive and equitable than the systems currently used by the state and local governments...
...President's Task Force on Suburban Problems made a separate but parallel report, with the aid of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. In suburbia, it says, "the dullness of existence is acutely felt by many older suburbanites and is often tragically reflected in the behavior of their children. Suburban vandalism, drug offenses and larceny by the young are on the rise." The report makes clear that it is no longer justified, if it ever was, to think of suburbia only as a split-level heaven with neat picket fences. In fact, the term suburbia has become...
...report's recommendations: construction of some 6,000,000 housing units for lower-income families moved from the inner city; experimental Government-subsidized insurance for home owners against loss in property values caused by integration; establishment of an urban-development bank to aid cities and suburbs, much as the World Bank finances growth in underdeveloped nations overseas...
...suburbs do not stand alone," says the report. "They are an integral part of the great metropolitan areas where two out of three Americans already live. Help to the troubled central city and the suburb must move in parallel. Without the improvement of both, all will suffer...
...began girding for a bigger conflict, Saigon refused to allow the ICC to see the manifests of incoming aircraft (loaded with U.S. advisers and equipment). At the same time, Hanoi kept the commissioners from inspecting Haiphong Harbor. "The People's Army of [North] Viet Nam," said an ICC report at the time, "expressed its inability, despite its best efforts, to provide a boat with a suitable outboard motor...