Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fiercely fought in the country's only civil war. Which powers are the proper province of the national Government and which are reserved to the states? In his State of the Union message last week, Ronald Reagan dramatically raised the issue once again, proposing the most radical shift in governmental authority since the New Deal. His scheme would transfer programs to the states costing more than $49 billion by fiscal 1987, which is more than half the money Washington distributes in grants. Said he: "Our next major undertaking must be a program to make Government again accountable...
...instinct, he evoked the heroic spirit of Leonard Skutnik, who dived into the Potomac last month to rescue a drowning plane crash victim (see box), and stirring speeches to Congress by Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. Only when he touched on foreign policy did he shift about nervously, as if on unsure terrain...
...some decentralization, Political Scientist Paul Peterson, chairman of the Committee on Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago, wondered about Reagan's intent. "If your overall purpose is to reduce benefits to the needy without appearing to do so," he said, "then the answer is to shift responsibility for serving the needy to state and local governments...
...billion. Obviously, all such projections are murky, with various officials making different assumptions about just what would happen. "The numbers thrown around by the President look suspicious," contends Economics Professor Bernard Weinstein of the University of Texas. "State and local governments will get the shaft as well as the shift...
...among many who revered the independence of the Judiciary. Influential Senators openly balked. Chief Justice Hughes sternly wrote to a Senate committee and demonstrated that the court was neither overburdened nor behind in its work. At the same time that Hughes defended his court, however, it began to shift its position. As usual, the Justices admitted no change, but a series of decisions now began to uphold key New Deal legislation, notably Social Security and the Wagner Act. Friends urged Roosevelt to accept his victory gracefully by dropping the court-packing bill, but the President had committed too much personal...