Word: aims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some seminar leaders--Coles and Robert Amdur, assistant professor of Social Studies, for instance--choose their classes with racial diversity in mind. Others aim for heterogeneity of region, sex and family income...
...Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, hidden on the first floor of the old Radcliffe College Library building that now also houses the Institute. When a gift of the Women's Rights Collection provided the nucleus for a Women's Archives in 1943, the aim of its founders was to collect source materials for easier writing of what was then a neglected history...
Many Changes. The bill also takes aim at a longtime target of tax reformers: the rise in value of assets held until death. To illustrate, take the case of an investor who buys stock at $10 a share and dies, leaving it to his son when it is worth $50. Under present law, neither the investor nor his son ever pays tax on any part of the $40 capital gain. The bill would gradually phase in a tax on that appreciation. When its provisions take full effect-perhaps in 30 years -the entire increase would be taxed...
...three-year contract now in effect, for example, gave the workers large increases the first year, guaranteed smaller raises the second and third years and allowed the union to reopen to press for more. But it provided that disputes over wages and benefits be settled by binding arbitration. One aim was to free the industry from the boom-bust cycle that used to attend union bargaining. Steel users would pile up huge inventories during the talks to carry them through a strike, then cut stockpiles after agreement was reached, sending the mills into a slump. Organization Candidate McBride is willing...
...aim of the plan is much more sophisticated than keeping the ten Carter and Mondale family members from bumping into each other, or making sure that all major sections of the country receive "a hit"?Carter talk for a visit from one of the campaigners. The schedules are drawn to concentrate efforts on some 20 high-priority states, selected by Jordan on the basis of a mathematical formula that weighs the electoral votes of each, its record of voting for presidential candidates and its potential for successful wooing by the Carter campaign. The list includes California, Illinois, Michigan...