Word: vow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Veto Vow. Many economists feel that considerably more stimulus is needed: perhaps a net tax reduction of $20 billion or even $25 billion (see story page 22). Congressional Democrats agree: they are likely to enact a tax rebate quickly, but a larger one than the President asked and in somewhat different form. The Democrats aim to give more of the rebate to lower-and middle-income taxpayers, partly for reasons of equity, partly because those people can be more reliably counted on to spend the money rather than put it in the bank. Congress might, for example, make the rebate...
City officials vow to be tough bargainers. "A new militancy on the part of municipal employees requires a new militancy on our part," says Donald H. Weinburg, personnel director for Washington, D.C. But there are doubts as to how successful the administrators will be. The AFL-CIO has melded 25 government unions into a new public-employees department, staffed by seasoned negotiators who will square off against city officials unaccustomed to hard bargaining. Says Carroll Harvey of Washington's Match Institution, an urban-planning agency: "City negotiators will be sitting down with some of the hardest-nosed pros...
...this reason, despite President Ford's vow to help fight inflation by cutting federal spending, that the Administration strongly backed the bill. Said Ford: "This legislation is significant in our fight against the excessive use of petroleum, in our economic battle and in our efforts to curb urban pollution and reduce congestion...
...tactic by spending 27 days on 27 different jobs, ranging from welding to performing a housewife's home work, in order to acquaint himself with voters' concerns. Harkin urged tougher anti-inflation measures, tax reform and better care for the elderly. He readily accepts Scherle's vow to run again in 1976, quipping: "I'll be glad to draw a crowd...
...themselves elected, to increase their influence, to help their friends (personally as well as politically, it seems) and to confound their adversaries. It is an old, old game and the public often loses. Isn't it time to change the rules? We cannot make our leaders take a vow of poverty. But we can make ironclad restrictions preventing a candidate or public official from using his own money for any political or public purpose. The next clause should prevent one officeholder from "assisting" another. Let them a11 behave like paupers...