Word: token
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...relatively little. For example, Carter wants to trim only a token $2 billion from expenditures in the remaining six months of the current fiscal year, even though the deficit is estimated to be as high as $47 billion. But now that he has produced his program, the President at least has an incentive to stick to it. Cutting spending in an election year will surely lose some votes, but making a start toward lowering inflation is nothing less than a national necessity...
...because the CPI rose 13% in 1979. That creates a vicious circle: inflation increases federal spending, which increases deficits, which increases inflation. Several experts have proposed limiting the tie between prices and benefits to 85% of any rise in the CPI, but Carter apparently will not ask even for token cuts in the entitlement programs...
...local opposition to construction of the nearby Seabrook nuclear power plant. And worse prospects lie ahead. After this week's primary in his home state of Massachusetts, Kennedy faces three contests on March 11 in Carter's Southern stronghold: Alabama, Florida and Georgia. Kennedy plans only token appearances in those states, so that he can concentrate on Illinois, which on March 18 will have the first primary in an industrial state outside the two candidates' native regions...
...course the President denies Moynihan's charges. As "proof" he points to the "Comprehensive National Urban Policy" that he submitted to Congress two years ago in March of 1978. But Carter's urban policy contained only token proposals that resulted in little relief to the most economically distressed areas of the U.S. He called for a "New Partnership" among all levels of American government. But the Fed quickly spurned its part of the agreement...
...welfare "reform" proposal may establish minimum family payments, but only in certain states of his native South and the Southwest. While Texas--the land of wind-fall profits--would have most of its welfare bills picked up by the Fed, New York would get what Senator Moynihan called "a token 5 per cent increase in Federal participation...