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This time the Defense Department shied away from its politically unpopular proposal to merge federal Reserve and the state-run Guard. Instead, it recommended outright elimination of 15 understrength Guard divisions, four Reserve brigades and many other smaller units. Total authorized personnel would shrink by only 38,500-to 640...
The Administration has so far shied away from an ardent defense of the guidelines, and has instead made token efforts to placate the Southerners. It has transferred authority for enforcement of the guidelines from the office of Education Commissioner Harold Howe to the office of Secretary of Health, Education, and...
Salting the Wound. Whatever the President's decision, it is not difficult to understand his reluctance to keep Martin around. In 1965 and election year 1966, the Johnson Administration shied away from the higher taxes or lower expenditures that seemed necessary to arrest inflation. But if the Administration was...
For many Republicans, however, Romney's party creed is more important than his religious doctrine. Wisely, perhaps, the Michigander shied away from aligning himself with any party faction. "I'm just a Republican," he said, "and, by golly, anyone who is a Republican is a Republican, as far...
Moynihan also would like to see the Center involved in more activist programs. Traditionally, Harvard has shied away from this kind of project and has stressed basic research. At M.I.T., he says, "they think that basic research is what you do when' you don't know what you're doing...