Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...domestic matters seems slower and less specified. During the week, Nixon let it be known that he would recommend overhaul-though not outright abolition-of the Electoral College system. He said that he favored tax reforms designed to meet mounting congressional clamor for closing some of the loopholes that allow many of the very rich to live entirely taxfree. He has been in close touch with Arkansas Democrat Wilbur Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and the most powerful man in Congress on fiscal matters...
...Committee for Economic Development, a group of top executives, argues that VAT should be considered as a partial replacement for corporate income taxes. Congress so far shows no inclination to consider such fundamental changes. In Geneva, American negotiators have been pushing for a sensible change in GATT rules to allow U.S. companies to receive export rebates based on corporate income taxes and other "direct" taxes. In his final economic message, President Johnson asked for Europe's help in revising the rules "so that they no longer give a special advantage" to Europe...
...court reversed the Board's decision to allow youth fare and sent the case back to the CAB for further hearings. Present's decision to eliminate youth fare was the outcome of the proceedings...
...Faculty will probably be asked to make another exception to the rules: to allow a Paine Hall demonstrator to take his seat on the SFAC. As the term progresses, requests for further exceptions will almost inevitably be made, as students on probation for Paine Hall commit minor infractions of University regulations which theoretically allow their being required to withdraw...
Only one of the three bills now pending to relax the Commonwealth's birth control laws faces this problem squarely. House Bill 4580, written by birth control crusader William Baird and sponsored, by, among others, Cambridge's Rep. Mary Newman, would allow government-supported social agencies to provide their clients with free birth control information and devices, in effect giving the poor the same access to birth control that the affluent already possess. It deserves a "yes" vote from any legislator who is at all concerned about the needs of the Commonwealth's citizens...