Word: across-the-board
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...taxes over the next five years by $85 billion and tie the knot on the plan to balance the budget for the first time in 30 years. Under the Republican-proposed measure, Congress would tighten its tax belt by offering American families a $500 per child tax credit, across-the-board reductions in capital gains and estate taxes and a $10,000 deduction for education expenses paid through special investment accounts. House Democrats contend the bill is a classic Republican sell-out to the rich, while falling $4 billion short of the education-related tax breaks promised to the White...
...addition, the rental subsidy for those in Harvard Real Estate housing will be replaced with an across-the-board housing allowance of $3,000 for all junior faculty...
Northwest Airlines is another labor trouble spot, with six unions currently in negotiations. Like United, Northwest gave its employees ownership of one-third of the company in exchange for 15% across-the-board pay cuts for three years. All parties are paying close attention to what happens at American. "The airline industry is a copycat industry," says Paul Omodt of ALPA in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which represents Northwest pilots. "What happens at one airline happens at another. There's not a lot of original thought." Labor negotiations are also due to begin at Continental...
...July 20, at campaign headquarters, with Senators Abraham, Bennett and Connie Mack of Florida present and many other counselors, like Rumsfeld, participating by speakerphone. Dole this time "moved from interested spectator to clear participant," says Bennett. He and Burke are convinced that Dole decided then on the 15% across-the-board cut. A big reason: the plan applied the same reduction to both the rich and the poor, so he could defend the move as fair...
...likely to experience a government much like the one that has operated in recent months. If Republicans manage to retain control of both houses and win the White House, Bob Dole could move quickly on a broadly conservative agenda that would include a balanced-budget plan and his across-the-board 15% income...