Word: programing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Committee has regularly considered formally structuring the program," Keenan said, but "there is no realistic need for it. The program on the whole has been successful...
...Bates College in Lewiston, Me., Correspondent Joelle Attinger came across two students who voted for Reagan because they felt he was best equipped to cut federal waste. Says Attinger: "Now both may have to leave Bates because of pending cuts in the student loan program." In Denver, Bureau Chief Richard Woodbury visited a food stamp center, only to find that some people were too embarrassed to talk to him. Says he: "For many aid recipients there is a deep stigma attached to obtaining handouts." Traveling to Erie, Pa., to report on proposed CETA cuts, Correspondent Robert Geline found residents ready...
...seen. But no one who heard him will be able to claim that the country was not warned, that what he had in mind was nothing less than the most radical invocation to change in 50 years. He spoke to a single topic: his new Administration's program to curb the inflation and end the stagnation that have been crippling the U.S. economy. But in so doing he summoned his countrymen to take a historic turn: from more government to less. If he should succeed-and it is a very large if -the implications are immense...
...Congress in recent years, read parts of his speech too fast. No matter that the speech itself, studded with statistics, lacked Reagan's unique verbal tang. The potential, far-reaching importance of what he offered, of what he urged the legislators to accept and enact, was there. His program was detailed in a 281-page volume called America 's New Beginning: A Program for Economic Recovery, which Congress had already received. The numbers alone were startling enough: $467 billion less federal spending, combined with $709 billion in tax savings for individuals and businesses, over the next five years...
...just the size and sweep of Reagan's program that could cause future historians to look on it as the start of a new era: it is the direction and philosophy. His plan challenges all the assumptions that have powered Government economic and social policy for nearly half a century. The key assumption-which prevailed in practice, if not in rhetoric, through Republican as well as Democratic administrations-was that the people had to look to Government to ensure material prosperity and a reasonably fair distribution of wealth for all citizens. Thus the Government had to institute spending programs...