Word: programing
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Laffer and Wanniski have now been shunted aside, and Kemp, while he still campaigns hard for Reagan, is no longer regarded as an influential issues adviser. The current program was shaped by study groups organized by Martin Anderson, a conservative economist who was an adviser on domestic affairs in the Nixon Administration. The panels included Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers and a member of TIME's Board of Economists, George Shultz, former Secretary of the Treasury, and Charls Walker, a leading tax expert. The group is sometimes joined by Arthur Burns, conservative chairman...
Actually, Reagan's new program bears some resemblance to Carter's: both talk of reducing regulation, and the first-year tax cut that each proposes is roughly the same in dollar amount. There is one key difference. Ironically, Carter boasts that compared with Reagan's, his plan is tilted more toward encouraging business investment and less toward giving consumers more money to spend. Quips Alfred Kahn, Carter's anti-inflation adviser: "I'd like to know the night and the hour when the Republicans and Democrats exchanged economic philosophies...
Finally, if elected, Reagan will have to push his programs through a Congress that is bound to be highly skeptical-one in which Democrats will continue to control at least the House, unless Reagan wins by an unlikely landslide. Even some top Republicans have misgivings about Reagan's proposals. Says New York Representative Barber Conable, ranking Republican on the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee: "I regret that Reagan has hewn to the line on Kemp-Roth. I think that Congress would use Reagan's plan as a starting point, and do its own things...
...produce all of its own nuclear fuel within four years. Until then, India has enough uranium on hand to keep the Tarapur plant operating at about three-fourths capacity. Editorialized the Hindustan Times: "Americans need to be reminded that their action is not going to stop the Indian nuclear program...
...Committee during its 1974 impeachment hearings on Richard Nixon. She was the principal sponsor of the three-year extension for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment. She backed efforts to expel Nazi war criminals from the U.S. and helped expose the fraud in a New York City summer food program that led to 17 convictions...