Word: controller
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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This approach to public policy continues to characterize Reagan's 1980 campaign. One of his proposed cures for inflation is the notion that a huge tax cut will restore the productive vitality of the economy and control price rises. Most economists believe this approach is nonsense, that it would simply fuel more inflation. Reagan also asserts that "inflation comes from the Government spending more than the Government takes in. It will go away when the Government stops doing that." Economists say that a balanced federal budget would still trim less than a percentage point from the inflation rate...
...what Anderson believes in -among other things, SALT II, gun control, high gasoline taxes and the ERA-is not what most Republicans believe in. Anderson Campaign Manager Michael MacLeod insists that his candidate is pursuing a primary campaign strategy that will send him to the July convention "with between 800 and 900" of the 998 delegates needed to win the nomination. Once in Detroit, according to this plan, Anderson will be able to woo enough other delegates to win on the first ballot. But this scenario combines so many unlikely events, including a victory in the June 3 winner-take...
...Kemeny commission that investigated Three Mile Island for President Carter put only small blame on the operators in the control room on the day of the near disaster. Instead, the commission took aim at what it called the "shallow," "deficient" and "inadequate" operator training system created by industry and Government. In the year since the accident, industry executives and Government regulators have made a number of changes. Says Loring Mills, a spokesman for the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations: "Before T.M.I., the industry was training people to run plants as if they always ran correctly. Now we throw trainees situations...
...tempers all around. But in Columbus the matter was turned over to an informal mediation process called the Night Prosecutor's Program. Within two weeks, after a meeting refereed by a local citizen trained in mediation techniques, the parents and the homeowner made a deal: they would control their kids better, she would sell the gun, and together they would finance a fence. Case closed...
...first-year Coach Larry Brown, who had guided the NBA's Denver Nuggets for five years. The Bruins' third coach in five years, Brown says of the season: "I've been spending a lot of tune trying to correct a situation that I had no control over...