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...astonishment of her original supporters, Mrs. Gandhi turned out to be a fighter. In 1967 she proposed a controversial ten-point program that included nationalizing the commercial banks and cutting off the government's $6 million annual subsidies to a variety of maharajahs and princelings. When conservative opponents rallied around her chief rival, Deputy Prime Minister Morarji Desai, she dismissed him from her Cabinet. When the party chiefs, angered by her leftward turn, expelled her for "grave acts of undiscipline," she went to the Parliament and won a vote of confidence. When she called a surprise election...
...suspend petty political quarrels, petty nitpicking and faultfinding and join hands to save the nation," declared Marcos. He offered a ten-point program for economic recovery that includes new curbs on public spending and closer cooperation between the government and the private sector...
...minute inaugural speech, De la Madrid outlined a ten-point austerity program for "reordering the economy." It included deep cuts in government spending and higher prices for public sector goods. (The next day gasoline prices were doubled.) He promised to peg the peso at a more "realistic" rate of exchange and announced plans to restructure the federal bureaucracy and eliminate waste...
...most of the first half, however, the squad was able to contain the Minutemen's 6-ft., 3-in. center Marsha Ready, holding her to a handful of points while building an early ten-point lead. But Harvard did not maintain pressure on the UMass frontline and the Minutemen crept back to within six at the half...
Between 1974 and the present survey, there was a ten-point increase (to 48%) in agreement that "there is too much concern with equality and too little with law-and-order." Asked again whether "there is more concern today for the welfare recipient who doesn't want to work than for the hard-working person who is struggling to make a living," 64% agreed, compared with 53% in 1974. There was also a measurable increase in the percentage of people who agreed that "belonging to an organized religion is important in a person's life," that the government...