Word: plan
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Spot. What has Nixon worried is a letter from Pierre Rinfret, a Nixon economic briefer in 1967 and 1968, who is now a successful New York-based consultant to major U.S. corporations. If the Administration's economic game plan remains unchanged, said Rinfret in his assessment for the President, unemployment will rise to 7.9% by the end of 1971, and to a catastrophic 9.7% a year later. Those figures are somewhat extreme, but not wholly out of line with other expert forecasts. Rinfret wrote Nixon a month ago. Since the President saw his report, a White House aide says...
...each other." Before the week was out, considerable attrition of that patience had already taken place. In a vote that crossed party lines and had an indecipherable mixture of political and philosophical motives, the Senate Finance Committee voted 10 to 6 to reject President Nixon's Family Assistance Plan. The proposal, which would change the underlying philosophy of public assistance and is the Administration's most innovative step in the area of social legislation, aims at the ultimate reduction of welfare rolls by providing a guaranteed minimum income for the poor -including the working poor-and job training...
...Britain get the next largest groups; other Americans are picking such disparate domiciles as Algeria. Ghana, Laos and New Zealand. Most of the self-exiles are in their 20s and 30s. Many are well-educated professionals or highly skilled technicians. While some have already renounced their U.S. citizenship or plan to do so soon, most have no intention of surrendering their familiar pale blue, plastic-covered passports. Many of the new expatriates will return, as did most of the writers of the Parisian 1920s. Few give up all contact with the U.S.; some reflect not so much a rejection...
Despite the region's obvious vulnerability to such storms, Pakistani authorities were woefully ill prepared to cope with the newest catastrophe. No disaster plan was ready to be put into operation. Even after the Dacca Morning News carried a story headlined...
...clock in the morning. It was time to go to bed, and the next day we had to go to work. But everyone would say, yes, he was hungry too. Our caravan [to Stalin's dacha] used to make detours into side streets. Apparently Stalin had a street plan of Moscow and worked out a different route every time. He didn't even tell his bodyguard in advance." Stalin refused to eat anything until someone else first tried it. He would say: "Look, here are the giblets, Nikita. Have you tried them yet?" Khrushchev, knowing that his host...