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Even though the economic development and private sector job creation intents of these programs appear to be in line with the Administration's philosophy, Republican mayors were unable to win endorsement of it from the platform committee at the August national convention of the GOP. Indeed the words "city," "town," and "urban" do not appear in the 1984 Republican Platform...
...clamp down on its money supply and credit, push up interest rates (currently 15.5% for deposits) in order to encourage savings, slow inflation, and stem the outflow of money from the country. Argentina also said it would try to chop the deficit in the biggest areas of public-sector spending from its level of 11.4% of gross domestic product in 1983, to 8.1% this year and down to 5.4% in 1985. In addition, Argentina indicated that it will take action to hold down wage increases, but the deal's language was left intentionally vague to give Alfons...
...reasons are clear: the number of 18-to 22-year-olds is rapidly declining; some demographers predict a drop of 25% over the next decade. Furthermore, 30 years ago college students were about evenly divided between the public and private sectors. Today 78% of all college students attend public institutions. Even though the total cost of educating a student is roughly the same, public tuition, aided by state and federal taxes, averages $1,126 a year, vs. $5,016 at private institutions. Notes Gary Quehl, president of the Council of Independent Colleges: "American higher education is the only national industry...
...Billion Budget Deficit. The way out of this massive deficit that we've inherited is not by any little cuts or cosmetic changes. The way out−the only way out−is by economic growth, by creating new wealth, by unfettering the private sector, by some dimension of deregulation and by federal-provincial cooperation...
...require assistance. That is in the Progressive Conservative tradition. On the economic side, there is in my judgment a role for government that is less interventionist than that of the Liberals and the socialists, a role that creates a climate in which the entrepreneurial genius of the private sector can do what it does best, namely create new wealth, new possibilities of employment. So there is no contradiction in terms. Progressive Conservative is an unusual party name, but this is an unusual country...