Word: adds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Johnson has used several major devices to substantially increase the Government's income. One was a speedup in income tax payments, which obliges corporations to pay earlier in the year and raises the withholding rates for high-income individuals. This will add $3.6 billion to Government revenues for fiscal 1967, but absolutely nothing in future years. The budget also profited from the great coin shuffle, though the shuffle was not primarily intended to aid the budget. By putting less silver in its coins to alleviate the silver shortage, the Government expects to collect a windfall of $1.6 billion from...
...Negroes," says the Ford Foundation's Edward Meade, "speak with such a thick dialect that they cannot be understood by other Americans." In the simple interests of comprehensibility, Ford and others in the past three years have undertaken, Professor Higgins style, to add pure Huntley-Brinkley speech to thousands of Negroes brought up on Amos 'n' Andy accents...
Like New Shoes. Now, in such large urban school systems as those of Miami, Detroit and Washington, D.C., in adult-education programs in Philadelphia and New Orleans, and in numerous colleges, English teachers are trying not to erase "down home" accents but to add standard English as a "second language" -to provide Negroes with what a New York City school official calls "a new pair of shoesyou wear your shiny new ones for a job interview and put on your old comfortable ones when you get home at night...
...hours a day of lessons, even at mealtimes. American firms are sending more and more of their men to Berlitz before sending them overseas, and now provide 40% of the firm's business, which last year amounted to a tidy $5,000,000. In April, Berlitz plans to add a Far East division, starting in Tokyo, to its American chain...
...also, this means that the College House Pharmacy made in the vicinity of 800% profit on my small purchase. The difficulty is, of course, that one has no way of checking how correct this pricing is. One simply pays up and shuts up. This, to me, is unjust. To add to the seeming absurdity of the situation, when I mentioned to the pharmacist that the doctor said it would only cost 25 cents, he calmly looked at me and said, "That's interesting," and then he put out his hand for the money...