Word: programing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...promised a campaign for human rights around the world, then began to make exceptions for certain allies, then largely abandoned the program...
Then, just as suddenly, came delays and equivocations. The Administration's senior economic officials summoned selected reporters to say that no anti-inflation program would be announced for the time being and that spending cuts for fiscal 1981, which begins Oct. 1, probably would total only $15 billion-significantly less than the $20 billion widely touted, and not enough to balance the budget. In fact, though they did not say so, there is good reason to believe that even after all the reductions, the deficit will be almost as large as the $15.8 billion that Carter estimated...
...Administration had some reason for its caution. Carter's advisers stressed that their program had to be credible; they would recommend only the spending cuts that they had some assurance Congress could accept. That ruled out any immediate major cuts in the most voracious tax-eaters: the major "entitlement" programs, such as Social Security ($117.9 billion), veterans' benefits ($20.8 billion) and unemployment compensation ($15.6 billion). And Administration officials stressed that there has been no final decision on anything, and will not be until shortly before the President makes a major economic-policy speech, possibly this week-though even...
...moment, all signs are that the new Administration program, such as it is, will fall far short of supplying the shock treatment that many economic experts believe is necessary to break the whirling inflationary cycle. Meanwhile, there are indications that White House uncertainty is making inflation worse. Said one Senate Banking Committee staffer about credit controls: "The Administration blew it." The mere rumor of controls, he said, caused businesses to borrow extra money so that they would have it before any controls took effect. Similarly, Treasury Secretary G. William Miller and Anti-Inflation Adviser Alfred Kahn acknowledged in a letter...
Hunter denied charges that he is corrupting his students by encouraging bribery and shady dealings. He compared the project with vote trading in Congress--"the I'll-vote-for-your-program-if-you'll-vote-for-mine principle...