Word: programming
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...idea originated with the Education Program's Brian Brown. "The drug problem is real, but teachers didn't know how to handle the subject because there was nothing definitive available," says Brown. Another sign was the response to TIME'S Sept. 26 cover on drugs: In addition to several thousand requests for permission to reprint, we were gratified to hear of one suburban teen-ager who told her mother: "If you read only one thing about drugs, read TIME'S cover." The new pamphlet is a collaboration between TIME Contributing Editor Christopher Cory, who wrote...
Parsimonious Beginning. He proposed a massive $5.7 billion cut in defense and space outlays, reductions or outright abolition for 57 "outmoded programs," and increased Social Security and transportation taxes and postal rates. For lack of money, the President suggested a parsimonious beginning on new activities that he endorses, such as those dealing with air and water pollution, welfare reform and federal revenue-sharing with states and cities. The result is a spending program of $200.8 billion, an increase of just $3 billion over projected expenditures for this year. Taking inflation into account, Nixon is really advocating a reduction in federal...
Neither Congress nor the White House emerged from the battle with very much glory. Congress had dallied for months with the HEW appropriation, far too long into the fiscal year to allow for effective amendment of programs in the bill. Congressmen pandered to the myriad interests of the education lobby by appropriating larger chunks for virtually everything. Most significantly, funds for "impacted areas" clouded and compromised the ideological lines. The President rightly condemned the inequities of the program (see box), but was willing to give Congress half the additional money it had voted...
Actually, Nixon was not fighting so hard over specific dollar amounts; the larger importance of the confrontation was symbolic. The President sought to prove that no spending program is more sacred than the general principle that inflation must be fought with Government austerity. Second, Nixon saw an opportunity to assert authority in a personal way. In his first year's dealings with Congress, the President suffered the Haynsworth defeat and the close call on the ABM. Now he has gone to the people and he has made a crucial veto stick. Congress may be more chary in the future...
...dispute between Capitol Hill and the White House over education and health spending involved an assortment of programs varying in size and purpose. Items: IMPACT AID. The largest addition to the President's budget was made here. Begun in 1950, the impact aid program was designed to relieve the burden school districts bear when they must serve large numbers of children of federal employees. There are two classes of such aid: one for children whose parents-typically military families-live and work on a federal base and thus pay no local school taxes, another for children whose parents live...