The Quality of American Life in the Eighties: Report of the Panel on the Quality of American LifePresident's Commission for a National Agenda for the Eighties, 1980 - 140 páginas |
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... leaders can more successfully accomplish the second . Because this panel was confronted with such a broad and challenging topic , I am grateful to my fellow Panel members for their willingness to " think anew . " Collectively , the ...
... leaders can more successfully accomplish the second . Because this panel was confronted with such a broad and challenging topic , I am grateful to my fellow Panel members for their willingness to " think anew . " Collectively , the ...
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... are likely to detract from a sense of well - being for millions of Americans in the 1980s . There are , we believe , certain questions that the nation's leaders must Johnston of the Bureau of the Census , Dennis Little.
... are likely to detract from a sense of well - being for millions of Americans in the 1980s . There are , we believe , certain questions that the nation's leaders must Johnston of the Bureau of the Census , Dennis Little.
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... and Predicaments for the 1980s The Legacy of the Postwar Era The Realities of a New Era 97 99 109 121 121 124 Adjusting to New Realities in the 1980s 127 Problems of Government and Leadership in the 1980s 128 Biographies 138 Overview.
... and Predicaments for the 1980s The Legacy of the Postwar Era The Realities of a New Era 97 99 109 121 121 124 Adjusting to New Realities in the 1980s 127 Problems of Government and Leadership in the 1980s 128 Biographies 138 Overview.
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... leaders of major institutions has declined substantially since the mid - 1960s , and less than half as many people feel great confidence in the Congress and the executive branch compared to the 1960s . Today , there is apprehensive ...
... leaders of major institutions has declined substantially since the mid - 1960s , and less than half as many people feel great confidence in the Congress and the executive branch compared to the 1960s . Today , there is apprehensive ...
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... report will lead to better informed and more realistic discussion about America's agenda for the 1980s and that it will provide guidance to the nation's leaders in the years to come . 7 1. White , Theodore H. , The Making of the.
... report will lead to better informed and more realistic discussion about America's agenda for the 1980s and that it will provide guidance to the nation's leaders in the years to come . 7 1. White , Theodore H. , The Making of the.
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adults Alan Cranston areas arts and humanities basic benefits Bernard Lefkowitz better Broward County budget Census changes child Children's Defense Fund Commission concern contribute costs Daniel Yankelovich decade decline effects elderly entitlement programs expectations factors families federal feel future Gallup Organization Goals for Americans growth rate Gwendolyn Brooks households housing income increasing individual inflation institutions Joan Ganz Cooney labor force Louis Harris majority Marian Wright Edelman ment millions of Americans nation's leaders needs Panel parents past percent percentage political polls population postwar President problems productivity public sector quality of American quality-of-life question rapid economic growth rapid growth realities recent relatively Research responsibility retirement role satisfaction schools sense of well-being slower growth social indicators Social Security society standard of living television tensions tion tional tradeoffs trends U.S. Department Washington Woodlands Conference workers Yankelovich young youth
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Página 1 - The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Página 23 - If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it.
Página 13 - Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
Página 100 - Would you say the government is pretty much run by a few big interests looking out for themselves or that it is run for the benefit of all the people?
Página 71 - We are unsettled to the very roots of our being. There isn'ta human relation, whether of parent and child, husband and wife, worker and employer, that doesn't move in a strange situation.
Página 18 - In the next 10 years we shall increase our wealth by 50 percent. The profound question is : Does this mean we will be 50 percent richer in a real sense, 50 percent better off, 50 percent happier? Or does it mean that in the year 1980 the President standing in this place will look back on a decade in which 70 percent of our people lived in metropolitan areas choked by traffic, suffocated by smog, poisoned...
Página 17 - Our real problems are also concealed from us by our current remarkable prosperity, which results in part from the production of arms that we do not expect to use, and in part from our new way of getting rich, which is to buy things from one another that we do not want at prices we cannot pay on terms we cannot meet because of advertising we do not believe.
Página 100 - How much of the time do you think you can trust the government in Washington to do what is right - just about always, most of the time, or only some of the time?
Página 135 - To put it more simply, the analysis shows that the executive agencies of the US Government are not now capable of presenting the President with internally consistent projections of world trends in population, resources, and the environment for the next two decades.