Word: programing
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...Governors were concerned that a gamble they made last February was now backfiring. In a bipartisan resolution, they had agreed to support the Reagan Administration's economic program on one major condition: that the Federal Government give them general-purpose block grants rather than money ear marked by Congress for specific uses. These block grants were to be the cornerstone of Reagan's "quiet federalist revolution," in which power would gradually be transferred from overblown federal agencies to state and local authorities. Given greater leeway and less red tape in using federal funds, the Governors were confident that...
...third of the $35 billion cut from the 1982 federal budget is coming out of state aid. In the 35 states that use federal guidelines to determine taxable business income, an additional $2.3 billion in corporate tax revenues will be lost as a result of Reagan's tax program. The net effect, charged Brown, is that of a "shell game" that "shifts the burden of federal cutbacks to state and local government." Bill Krause, aide to Wisconsin's Dreyfus, was even blunter: "We aren't getting more powers, just more bills. Shift and shaft...
NATO'S inability, or unwillingness, to match the Soviet buildup in Europe is one of the reasons the Administration has cited for launching a neutron program. In 1977, following the same reasoning, President Jimmy Carter tried to convince NATO allies to let the U.S. deploy the warheads in Europe. West German Chancellor Schmidt, despite the opposition within his own party, at that time privately assured Carter that his government would eventually allow their deployment if other NATO countries would follow suit. Publicly, Schmidt said then, as he did last week, that the production of the bomb was "solely...
...notice of the new settlers until a real estate boom was well under way. Now at least 600 people live in the area. Most bought their property before 1978, when the Environmental Protection Agency began a $1.2 million East Everglades study that became part of a national wetlands preservation program. Many put up dwellings without building permits. Those who dug water holes rarely bothered to tell the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which supervises wetland areas. When officials finally served summonses and cease-and-desist orders, some were run off at gunpoint...
...National Aquarium, the most advanced and by all odds the most attractive of its kind in the world, caps a $1.5 billion revitalization program on which Baltimore embarked 25 years ago. The renaissance has been led by a remarkable coalition of preservationists, Big Business and city government and, since 1971, has been accelerated by Mayor William Donald Schaefer ("Baltimore Is Best"), one of the most effective urban executives in the U.S. today (see box). Few cities anywhere can boast so dramatic a turnaround...