Word: directives
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...policy at all. In Sprinkel's view, Volcker "aborted the recession last spring" by injecting money rapidly back into the economy to ease the downturn during an election year. Said Sprinkel: "I have been watching the Fed since Harry Truman's days, and though Presidents have no direct control over the Fed, the White House does have all sorts of subtle influences to help it get the sort of monetary policy it wants...
Double Fantasy, the new record, demonstrated that. Ono's contributions are especially accessible and congenial after years of punk and New Wave conditioning. John's songs, simple, direct and melodic, were celebrations of love and domesticity that asked for, and required, no apology. It was not a great record, like Plastic Ono Band, but it might have been the start of another time of greatness...
...termed a new Soviet "doctrine for peace and security" in the Persian Gulf. He called on the U.S., its NATO allies, China and Japan to agree not to set up military bases or deploy nuclear weapons in any of the oil-producing countries of the region. This was a direct challenge to the Carter doctrine, enunciated after the Afghan invasion; it pledged the U.S. to protect the gulf and adjacent sea lanes from any Soviet threat. Washington promptly rejected Brezhnev's proposals. A State Department spokesman characterized them as "vague, inequitable and unworkable in practice." The Indian government prudently...
THIS NEW American-initiated Marshall Plan would involve not only a direct transfer of resources by the affluent countries, but a network of "micro-efforts" by American coporations to aid private enterprise or state-owned entrepreneurial organizations. He proposes modification of World Bank and the International Monetary Fund organizational structure to muster wasted resources currently held by OPEC or in the bloated Eurocurrency market and target them for strategic industrial projects in Third World countries. As in the original Marshall Plan mutual self-interest would provide rich and poor nations with a basis for cooperation...
...There are easily 70 million conservatives out there, and we only ask them to donate once a year. That's not unreasonable," says Viguerie, whose favorite theory is that his direct mail network bypasses the "Democratic-liberal media that bad-mouths us across the board." His missives are a means of communication and agenda-setting, not just money-grubbing, he points...