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| 1965 || || Conference || The Brookings Institution holds a conference to address the major problems of intergovernmental finance and to propose solutions to those problems.<ref>{{cite book |title=Monthly Labor Review, Volume 104, Issues 7-12 |url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=m1smcNzbufgC&pg=RA6-PA63&lpg=RA6-PA63&dq=%22in+1965+the+brookings+institution%22&source=bl&ots=PS5FmyMfOr&sig=ACfU3U28aCT_Evimw2pSxhAmfNFe1mCGBw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjynMqNuNPlAhXHFbkGHYkdDKYQ6AEwBHoECAIQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22in%201965%20the%20brookings%20institution%22&f=false}}</ref>
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| 1966 || || Research center Institutional || The Brookings Institution enters the compuer age by establishing the Social Science Computation Center for Research, which offers computational research support for scholars, including use of a mainframe computer.<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
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| 1966 || || || The Brookings Institution publishes a book by Charles Frankel entitled ''The Neglected Aspect of Foreign Affairs''. Frankel argues that “in comparison with the sophisticated analysis devoted to U.S. military, economic, and diplomatic policy, little intellectual attention has been given to international cultural exchange”.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Power of Cultural Diplomacy – Why does the United States Neglect It? |url=https://www.publicdiplomacycouncil.org/2017/05/13/the-power-of-cultural-diplomacy-why-does-the-united-states-neglect-it/ |website=publicdiplomacycouncil.org |accessdate=5 November 2019}}</ref>
| 1986 || || Research || Research by Brookings Senior Fellow {{w|Joseph A. Pechman}} leads to the {{w|Tax Reform Act of 1986}}, a major bill that would have a profound impact on the {{w|economy of the United States}}.<ref name="brookings.edu"/> The act is designed to simplify the tax code, broaden the tax base, and eliminate many tax shelters and preferences.<ref>{{cite web |title=Tax Reform Act of 1986 |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Tax-Reform-Act |website=britannica.com |accessdate=20 November 2019}}</ref> Pechman’s ''Federal Tax Policy'' is essential to those reforms.<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
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| 1987 || || Research center Institutional || The Brookings Institution forms the Center for Economic Progress and Employment which focuses on productivity growth, poverty, and related issues.<ref>{{cite book |title=Rural Development Perspectives: RDP |url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=_1QwU2PD0CkC&pg=RA1-PA51&lpg=RA1-PA51&dq=%22In+1987+the+Brookings+Institution+%22&source=bl&ots=N91vqUhmN-&sig=ACfU3U14puEQcrrYKtVWkBvZ8f3_ont1bg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjW1-D1uvvlAhXJHrkGHW0_CGcQ6AEwAXoECAMQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22In%201987%20the%20Brookings%20Institution%20%22&f=false}}</ref>
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| 1989 || || Research || At the suggestion of Senator Joseph Biden, the Brookings Institution convenes a task force to study delay and cost in federal civil litigation. The task force recommends a series of case-management strategies designed to streamline the process and to attack discovery abuse. Biden would incorporate these case-managementre commendations into the legislation introduced as the Civil Justice ReformAct of 1990.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Robel |first1=Lauren K. |title=Fractured Procedure: The Civil Justice Reform Act of 1990 |url=https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1558&context=facpub |website=repository.law.indiana.edu |accessdate=21 November 2019}}</ref>
| 2001 || || Research || Political scientist {{w|Ron Haskins}} and economist {{w|Isabel Sawhill}} at Brookings, team to study the United States policies on children and families. A proposal by Sawhill and researcher Adam Thomas for a child tax credit becomes part of major tax legislation.<ref name="brookings.edu"/>
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| 2001 || || Institutional || Exactly one week before the {{w|September 11 attacks}}, Brookings’s TV and radio studio opens for business. The first live television feed occurs on the afternoon of 9/11 with {{w|CNN}}.<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
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| 2001 || || Assistance || After the {{w|September 11 attacks}}, with remarkable speed, Brookings experts produce influential proposals for homeland security and intelligence operations.<ref name="brookings.edu"/> ''Protecting the American Homeland'' is published on October 25.<ref>{{cite book |title=Protecting the American Homeland: One Year On |publisher=Brookings Institution Press |url=https://books.google.com.ar/books/about/Protecting_the_American_Homeland.html?id=Yl_RDAAAQBAJ&source=kp_book_description&redir_esc=y}}</ref><ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
| 2001 || || Proposal || Brookings scholar {{w|Isabel Sawhill}} writes a proposal that would help forge bi-partisan support in Congress to extend the benefits of the child tax credit in the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 to lower- and middle-income families.<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
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| 2002 || January 9 || Research center Institutional || {{w|Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center}} is founded. A [[w:Nonpartisanism|nonpartisan]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.politico.com/blogs/politico44/2012/08/obama-romney-asking-you-to-pay-more-so-that-people-like-him-can-get-a-tax-cut-130747|title=Obama: Romney 'asking you to pay more so that people like him can get a tax cut'|last=Epstein|first=Jennifer|date=2012-08-01|website=|publisher=Politico|access-date=20 November 2019}}</ref> {{w|think tank}} based in {{w|Washington D.C.}}<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/25/business/tax-policy-center-in-spotlight-for-its-white-paper.html "Tax Policy Center in Spotlight for Its Romney Study" by Annie Lowrey, ''New York Times'', October 24, 2012]</ref>, it is a joint venture of the {{w|Urban Institute}} and the Brookings Institution, aiming to provide independent analyses of current and longer-term tax issues, and to communicate its analyses to the public and to policymakers.<ref>{{cite web |title=Whois Record for TaxPolicyCenter.org |url=http://whois.domaintools.com/taxpolicycenter.org |website=whois.domaintools.com/ |accessdate=21 November 2019}}</ref>
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| 2002 || || Leadership || American foreign policy analyst {{w|Strobe Talbott}} becomes the sixth president of Brookings.<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/><ref>{{cite web |url= https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2017/october/strobe-talbott-first-distinguished-visitor-buffett-institute/| title= Strobe Talbott to be first distinguished visitor at Buffett Institute |last= |first= |date=2017-10-13 |publisher= {{w|Northwestern University}} |access-date=2 October 2019}}</ref><ref name="brookings.edu"/>
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| 2002 || || Research center Institutional || Brookings establishes the {{w|Center for Middle East Policy}} "to promote a better understanding of the policy choices facing American decision makers in the {{w|Middle East}}".<ref>{{cite web |title=ABOUT THE CENTER FOR MIDDLE EAST POLICY |url=https://www.brookings.edu/about-the-center-for-middle-east-policy/ |website=brookings.edu |accessdate=2 October 2019}}</ref>
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| 2003 || || Recommendation || Led by former {{w|Paul Volcker}}, the second National Commission on the Public Service (a project of a Brookings policy center) releases a set of recommendations for government reform, entitled ''Urgent Business for America''. The Commission offers rationales and ideas for reorganizing the federal government that stem from the work of the center.<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
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