Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wealth among a cadre of megamillionaires is worse than immoral; it is dangerous to the good health of capitalism. His proposed cures are fairly familiar -- and unlikely to be enacted: for example, taxing net worth above a certain level (say, $25 million) and reforming the rules on trusts that allow billions to escape fair taxation...
Indeed, perhaps pessimistically, humanitarian conservatism accepts the good, together with the bad, until time and circumstances allow for the attainment of the better. While common neo-conservatives mouth similar views, the humanitarian conservatives accept that people must move actively to bring those times and circumstances about. It is this belief that brings true conservatives closer to liberal reformers than to their heirs in the now-warped conservative tradition...
...insists that his committee is determined not to allow its recommendations to be forgotten, and he says the body has made provisions for "structures and institutions" to ensure that 1980 will not be replayed...
...James Leo Sullivan would allow himself to get in fights," says Cavellini. "Healy's reaction is just to roll with it and not to fight back...
...governor's tax proposal does not go through the legislature, human services in the Commonwealth will be in shambles. We'll be back to King administration funding," Johnston said, referring to Dukakis' more conservative predecessor. "I can't believe the legislature will allow that to happen...