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Progress Party in 1972. Its platform includes the dissolution of the Danish armed forces, the sale of Greenland to the U.S., biweekly elections, replacement of the country's cradle-to-grave welfare system with vending machines dispensing porridge-and, of course, abolition of taxation.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DENMARK: Taxation on Trial | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

Although Stendahl has repeatedly expressed his support for the program, in January 1977 he proposed the abolition of the coordinator's office in order to reduce the school's budget deficit.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ford Supports Div Program For Women | 2/17/1978 | See Source »

In addition, the convention passed a resolution stating that the group will not discuss "the internal structure, the reform of, or the abolition of, any existing University organization."

Author: By J.wyatt Emmerich, | Title: Constitutional Convention Resolves Representation | 2/9/1978 | See Source »

In consequence the exhibition of 80 paintings made over the past five years by peasant workers in Huhsien county, Shensi province, which just opened at the Brooklyn Museum and will travel to San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles and Houston throughout 1978, is not only interesting but instructive. These bright-colored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Arcadians of Huhsien County | 1/9/1978 | See Source »

In the New World, a personal, biblical faith was an American characteristic from the start. The early settlers' fervor was reactivated in the 18th century by Jonathan Edwards and Anglican George Whitefield, America's first mass revivalist. When Whitefield hit Philadelphia in 1739, Freethinker Ben Franklin figured his open-air...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back to that Oldtime Religion | 12/26/1977 | See Source »

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