Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jimmy Carter barely mentions you in his memoirs, which seems strange because he appointed you. Did you get the support from him you wanted...
...Regan kept saying, "You've got to see him much more frequently. I'll arrange it." But he never did. When I saw him, it was probably as often as not at my initiative. But I didn't feel very comfortable about that. The President was really quite supportive, particularly given the pressures that he was under from his own people. He had some basic instinct that he didn't like inflation, which was a great help to us. He wasn't necessarily enthusiastic in his support, but he wasn't heavily critical...
...beneath such catchy acronyms as FUEL (Fuel Users for Equitable Levies) and TRIP (The Road Information Program), are some unlikely fellow travelers. Among them: the American Petroleum Institute, which represents big oil companies, and Americans for Democratic Action, a left-wing organization that rates public office holders on their support for liberal issues. Both groups contend that a gas-tax increase would unfairly burden lower-income motorists because they spend a higher proportion of their income on fuel than better-off drivers do. The opponents are joined by state legislators, who fear that a higher federal levy would squeeze their...
...average of 27.5 m.p.g., vs. 27.2 for General Motors and 26.6 for Ford. GM Chairman Roger Smith has denounced a higher gas tax as "cruel" and "unfair" and argued that it would dampen auto sales. Ford has straddled the fence. Vice Chairman Harold Poling said his company would support a phased increase of 15 cents per gal. over three years, but only as a last resort for cutting the deficit...
Containing the $155.1 billion federal budget deficit is the electorate's top assignment for its new leader. The fiscal shortfall is seen as the country's main economic problem by 43%, vs. 22% who name unemployment, 16% the trade deficit and 11% inflation. Seven out of ten support Bush's opposition to new taxes, but the same large majority predicts that he will fail to avert them...