Word: programing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...call came from the vanquished to the victor. "Well, Mr. President, you're tough," said Dan Rostenkowski of Illinois, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. "You beat us." Indeed he had, and with surprising ease. In the final legislative battle over Ronald Reagan's economic program, 48 House Democrats had deserted their party to help the President win a 238-to-195 victory on a vote for a bill that provides the largest tax cut in U.S. history. The same day the Republican-controlled Senate endorsed a similar measure, 89 to 11. House and Senate conferees...
...beginning," exulted the President. If not a revolution. Not since the first six months of Franklin Roosevelt's Administration has a new President done so much of such magnitude so quickly to change the economic direction of the nation. Reagan not only won 90% of his economic program, but did so with a display of political organization and savvy that left his opponents reeling in disarray. For a President supposedly untutored in the ways of Washington and suspected by some of lacking the acumen and the energy that the Oval Office demands, Reagan has proved to be astonishingly sure...
Richard Borton, an aide to Boston Mayor Kevin White, has a chance to be another Moses. As chief planner for the implementation of cable television in the Massachusetts capital. Borton wants to provide the nation with a model program for this burgeoning technology. His vision could make Boston the trend-setter New York was more than 50 years...
...group of about ten "associates" from around the country who will advise the Foundation and help raise funds for its program...
Parker L. Coddington, director of government relations for Harvard, said that despite the potential adverse effects of the tax cuts and spending reductions. Harvard officials must now cling to "one chief hope that the administration program does achieve its ends" in cutting inflation, increasing the Gross National Product, "and building a generally stronger economy, so that there will be money to give to places like Harvard...