Word: programing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There is only one permanent solution to the entire problem. The insurance industry should be permitted to regulate the reproductive processes of the country with a program of controlled breeding that would eventually produce a select group of drivers and claimants who are basically honest, responsible, and who have respect for the rights of others. With a mass of people who could retain their common sense, manners and self-respect while driving, we would encounter little difficulty in settling claims under the current fault system...
...most rigorous restraint," Johnson asked business and the unions to slow the wage-price cycle. Wage settlements, he said, must be reduced voluntarily from last year's 5.5% average. Where possible, extra costs must not be passed to consumers. On the international side, he urged approval of his program for reducing the balance of payments deficit...
...program that has Wilbur Mills's valuable support is the tourist tax package that Lyndon Johnson is submitting to Congress this week. "We are going to do something about this," vowed Mills, and while it might not be precisely what the Administration has in mind, it will be designed to assuage the itch for travel that propels about 3,000,000 Americans-and 2 billion American dollars-overseas each year...
...spending on travel outside the Western Hemisphere by $350 million a year, part of a program to trim $3 billion from the estimated $3.5 billion to $4 billion balance of payments deficit, Johnson has set his sights on the big spenders. His major proposals: 1) a tax, effective May 1, on expenditures by travelers abroad of more than $10 a day, which is scarcely enough to pay for the sauce béarnaise on the tournedos at Maxim's; 2) a 5% tax on ship and air fares to the Eastern Hemisphere; and 3) cuts in the $100 customs...
...learned that even Saigon and the U.S. embassy are not enemy-proof. And, amid the furor in the cities, no one yet knows how many pacification workers and members of revolutionary development teams have been assassinated out in the countryside. Fourteen American civilians working in the pacification program near Hué alone were killed last week...