Word: adds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with federally demanded outlays excluded, the JoAes-Conable plan would produce a cut of $15 billion to $20 billion in Treasury revenues. To avoid so great a loss, the Congressmen plan to have the program phased in over several years; they would allow business to reduce its taxes-and add to its investment capital -by about $5 billion next year, permitting the amount to rise to three times that much in 1982. Says Jones of the bill: "This will be the centerpiece of a business tax cut next year...
Says he: "There are 60 conservative Democrats who are mad about economic policies and could be persuaded to protest just about any liberal policy. Add them to the Republican votes and you have a majority. But that's not my interest...
Congress scrapped the quotas in 1974, but the sweetheart spirit survives. Under a four-year-old program of Government subsidies and price supports, growers still get twice the world level, or at least 150 per Ib. Now they are pushing legislation to add another eight-tenths of 10 to supports, and to keep the price rising by a full 7% annually until 1981. The raise may not seem like much, but each one-penny increase adds $500 million a year to Americans' grocery expenses...
...restaurant macaroni machine, the lobsters eagerly snapped up dinner with their claws -"sometimes just like hungry dogs," says Conklin. But the artificial diet, alas, produced almost snow-white lobsters (unlike the motley-colored beasts in nature). For anyone who thinks this might be objectionable, Conklin's advice: add a dash of paprika or some other natural coloring to the feed. That should turn them into redbacks even before they are cooked...
Writing is hard work for him now: "You go into a dark room ind close the door, and you're alone inside your head." One pulls things out of the mental attic to use in the column, he adds, and the attic is depleted. You don't have time to add much to your store. "How many column ideas are there?" he asks. "There's the plumber, and your teenagers, and your car, and your house. If you're really desperate, you can write about your wife, and then it's time to hang up the typewriter...