Word: programing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though no assault on Social Security benefits is anticipated to tighten the 1982 budget further, the President's economic advisers have little doubt that this politically sensitive program will have to be curbed in 1983 and 1984 if the budget is to be balanced. Since one-third of the Senators and all members of the House face elections next year, they are not likely to be receptive to any Reagan plans to tamper with Social Security benefits...
World events, which have fortuitously permitted Ronald Reagan to concentrate on his economic revolution, seem unwilling to wait much longer, even as he struggles to give his economic program wider credibility. Engendering a natural psychology that his sweeping economic changes would succeed was always an essential part of the program. The Administration can be faulted for not heeding the warning signals that this year's budget deficit might balloon beyond expectations, and that its defense spending plans might prove too lavish. But the rush to judgment before the first tax or budget cut even takes place is a curious...
...rent a landlord can charge) ruined the city," Sullivan says. "Properties have not been kept up, there have been absentee landlords and all the rest because people could not afford to maintain what they owned." But, after a decade, he concedes it would be disastrous to scrap the program overnight, favoring instead a gradual program that would decontrol apartments as they became vacant. "It would have to be eased out very slowly," Sullivan says. Since the switch of a single council seat to the Independent camp would allow the abolition of rent control, Sullivan is campaigning as hard this year...
...wonder. Reagan was addressing almost 3,000 delegates to the Chicago convention of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners-and union officials currently rank not far behind black and feminist leaders in expressing dismay over the Administration's course. "He has cut out every social program we have fought for over the last 40 years," exclaimed Roy Klein, a convention delegate from South Bend, Ind. Boston Delegate Andrew Sarno added: "I don't think he should have been allowed to come here...
Equipped with setters, spikers, and diggers, the women's volleyball program resembles a prospector on a life-long search for precious metals. The Crimson first struck gold last May when the Standing Committee on Athletics approved the squad's proposal for varsity (Level II) status and concomitant funding...