Word: programing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...really weren't considering specific program cuts. At this late date, you can't make a new budget, so if the budget is too high, the pro rata cuts are about the only device available. On entitlement programs, of course, we'll have to consider them one at a time, because they'll require a change...
Before they extend any new aid, Western lenders would most likely want to see a workable program for economic recovery in the country. The possibility of increasing U.S. economic assistance is "under review" by the Reagan Administration; the subject figured prominently in a meeting last week at the United Nations between Haig and Polish Foreign Minister Jozef Czyrek...
...keeps his promises. Since his election last May, France's Socialist President has launched proposals to increase public benefits, raise taxes on the rich, return power to local governments, abolish the death penalty and slow down the West's most advanced nuclear energy program. Last week, fulfilling a pledge so controversial that many Frenchmen thought Mitterrand might actually back off, his ministers approved the most sweeping takeover of private industry seen in Europe since the immediate postwar years...
...plan excessive. The Conseil d'Etat, a 199-man body that advises the government on the constitutionality of legislation, warned that it might be discriminatory to take over French companies while leaving foreign ones in private hands. But Mitterrand remained loyal to a central plank in the Common Program he signed with the Communists in 1972. Declared the President last week at his first press conference since taking office: "We thought the government of France had the right to decide what is and what is not to be nationalized." And he showed no remorse about arousing...
Critics of Mitterrand's nationalization program claim that Renault is a special-and lucky-case. First, unlike many of the firms that the government now plans to take over, Renault was making money when it was nationalized...