Word: programing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When those three groups join forces to battle a cut in funds benefiting them, they are a mighty power. Every President since Dwight Eisenhower has tried to cut back the program that gives financial aid to often wealthy school districts where a large number of Government employees live...
...reductions will have to be scaled back too. During his confirmation hearing last week, Secretary of the Treasury-designate Donald Regan placed a higher priority on reducing spending than on cutting taxes. He said that trimming the budget and controlling regulation were the "more important" parts of the program. Said Regan: "Then we cut taxes." The more ardent supply-siders, led by Kemp, insist that the new Administration should press ahead with deep tax reductions. Says Kemp: "I don't want to see anything compromise the full 30% cuts...
...there are many skeptics who question Reagan's strategy. Just about all economists agree with the supply-siders that the U.S. can never achieve noninflationary expansion without a sharp rise in savings and investment and a reversal of the decline in productivity growth, but many doubt that the program now shaping up will produce those effects...
Eckerd announced that it intends to limit residence in the proposed community to senior citizens with a demonstrated interest in learning, who will become members of something called the Academy of Senior Professionals. The school hopes to offer a not-for-credit program of workshops, lectures and conferences for residents in four subjects: energy and environment; freedom and economic growth; undergraduate educational values; faith and culture. The plan promises that half a dozen prominent scholars of retirement age (yet to be selected) will be hired to supervise all this. In addition, the school's regular teachers could also invite...
...main impact on Eckerd's undergraduate program, however, will be financial: income from the sale and rental of the buildings could eventually surpass the school's annual yield on its endowment. If Eckerd's zoning request is approved, says the St. Petersburg Times, "the lovely waterfront site would become just another tax-sheltered retirement haven for the well-to-do." Amid local concern that the plan has more to do with real estate than education, St. Petersburg's planning commission has refused to approve it. That leaves the issue in the lap of the city council...