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On the recordJanuary 12, 1977
Of those suggestions submitted, more than 296,000 have been adopted with resultant tangible first-year benefits in excess of $929,000,000.
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Gerald Ford
Republican · Michigan

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Message to the Congress Transmitting Reports on the Military Incentive Awards Program for 1976

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