Word: programing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ronald Reagan's economic program came off without a hitch. In Scene 1, two weeks ago, the President's budget proposal sailed through the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives. In last week's predictable though impressive Scene 2, the Senate passed the budget 78 to 20-a margin so wide that had not a single Republican voted (and 50 out of 52 voted aye), the Democrats alone would have carried the measure...
...drama positioned themselves. In the leads are the White House, represented chiefly by Treasury Secretary Donald Regan, and the House of Representatives, whose main negotiator is Ways and Means Committee Chairman Daniel Rostenkowski. Publicly, at least, the White House is standing fast by its original tax-cut program, based on a 1977 proposal by two Republicans, Congressman Jack Kemp of New York and Senator William Roth of Delaware. Its main and most controversial feature is a 10% across-the-board reduction in personal income taxes in each of the next three years. In fiscal 1982, the first year, $44 billion...
...cold. At first he was disbelieving, then irritated. "Can I have twelve hours to decide?" he asked grumpily. Bul it took less time than that for Reagan to make his decision and seek Ihe cuts. The President now feels that public opinion may be gathering behind him for his program of tax reductions. He plans to increase the pressure in that area...
...other children had knife wounds, but both had been stabbed or bludgeoned to death, probably by someone other than the presumed mass killer. Barrett is only the second victim in the last six to be under age 20. His death will doubtless rally support for a proposed summer program to protect Atlanta's youth and bolster ongoing efforts to obtain needed federal funding...
...plan may well be the most comprehensive children's summer program in urban history. It will provide supervised recreation or jobs for all of the city's 69,000 public school children, ages 6 to 18, for up to twelve hours a day. It will begin the Monday after school lets out and continue until classes resume in September. The program, expected to add $1.2 million to the city's budget, will feature a child-staff ratio of 20 to 1, police and civilian patrols assigned to observe children at pickup and delivery points, free lunches...