Word: underperform
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...committee that drafted the Kennedy-Johnson "war on poverty," then turned into one of its harshest crit ics. In his recently published attack on the program, Maximum Feasible Mis understanding, Moynihan criticized the Office of Economic Opportunity for antipoverty campaigns that have a tendency "to oversell and underperform...
...Former OEO Chief Sargent Shriver tended to "oversell and underperform," particularly in handling the Job Corps and community action...