Word: stopgaps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When it came time to vote the actual money, Congress would not give the President all the additional cuts he wanted. But after Reagan vetoed a stopgap resolution (theoretically shutting the Government down for a day) the legislators passed a bill that reduced spending by another $4 billion. They did so at the behest of Reagan lieutenants who conferred only with Republican leaders and did not so much negotiate as tell them what the President would and would not accept. Moreover, Congress gave Reagan power within broad limits to take that $4 billion out of whichever programs he chose, over...
...billion last July, Reagan in late September asked for more cuts. He urged Congress to trim an additional $13 billion when it actually got around to appropriating the money. But he never really made clear just which activities he wanted to slash. Congress, lacking guidance, passed a stopgap continuing resolution funding the Government from the start of the fiscal year on Oct. 1 until Nov. 20, an arbitrarily chosen date, while wrangling inconclusively over the regular appropriations bills...
...priests at first took office as a stopgap measure in a time of crisis. But last December, with the crisis largely past and the Catholic hierarchy growing increasingly critical of the Sandinistas' repressive measures, the bishops asked them to leave their government posts. They stayed on, claiming the country still needed their services, so the bishops came up with a compromise plan. The priests could retain their jobs but downplay their roles as priests. If Rome approved, that...
Foreign assistance will help, but only to some extent. The Soviet Union has promised $690 million in goods and hard currency. President Carter has pledged $670 million in credits for U.S. grain and other foodstuffs. Western banks have arranged for new loans totaling $1 billion. These are stopgap measures. Polish economists agree that further belt tightening and a program of profound economic reform will both be necessary. One proposal: decentralization of economic decision making so as to give plant managers more responsibility. This will even include the introduction of a profit motive. Most experts also believe that the pricing system...
Indexation, the system of pegging payments such as salaries or Government Social Security benefits to the rate of inflation, is a siren that has attracted supporters on both the political right and left. Milton Friedman, a sometime adviser to Ronald Reagan, has advocated COLAs as a stopgap to mitigate the social disruptions caused by soaring prices while action is taken to bring inflation under control. And Rudy Oswald, chief economist of the AFL-CIO, says, "Indexation allows workers to make up for some of the inflation that has taken place...