Word: targeting
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...recently as last month, before Reagan's New Hampshire victory, White House advisers looked forward with relish to the possibility of Reagan as their target. No longer. Says one Georgian: "People like what Reagan's saying about the economy, about foreign policy. He's offering simple solutions and that's what people want." Adds another White House aide: "To dismiss Ronald Reagan as a right-wing nut would be a very serious error-for us or anybody else...
...best the White House could do was to set a target of this week for drawing up a specific list of requested cuts. Congress could not wait. Its leaders are anxious to push through budget resolutions by the statutory deadline of May 15. They hope that will counteract the efforts of Washington's myriad lobbyists to block reductions in their favorite programs...
...Senate budget resolutions will embody most of the President's recommendations for expenditure cuts, whatever those recommendations finally turn out to be. "When we get to the appropriations process, though, everything is going to be in jeopardy," says one Carter strategist. The budget resolutions merely set a target; congressional committees can and often do vote more money for specific programs than the budget resolutions allow. It is to the appropriations committees that lobbyists probably will make their loudest cries of anguish...
...Seve figures that an end to revenue sharing would cost the city an extra $50 million to $55 million; making up that sum might require a 17% increase in city real estate taxes, on top of a 20% jump already contemplated. De Seve insists that Carter and Congress should target budget cuts on what he derisively calls the "OPEC states," principally Alaska, California, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas, which are collecting huge revenues from oil production...
...purported to be. But the principal culprits are Dutchmen who, in two separate operations, are believed to have passed off several million bottles of cheap wine as the product of well-known French vineyards, earning as much as $10 million in the process. American importers have been a favorite target for shipments of bogus Pouilly-Fuissé, a white wine from the Burgundy region that has soared both in popularity and price in the U.S. According to investigators in The Netherlands, Americans drank between 300,000 and 500,000 bottles of the phony-Fuissé during the past two years...