Word: allows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ways and Means was obviously determined to write a stringent reform law. Meeting throughout the week, the committee approved the narrowing of loopholes that now allow some wealthy individuals to escape taxation entirely. The changes would bring an additional $2 billion into the federal Treasury and lighten the burden-if only by a feather -on the middle-income taxpayers...
...group presented Acting City Clerk Paul Healy with a stack of 1776 petition sheets calling for a November vote on their rent control ordinance, which would roll back rents to January 1968 levels and allow eight per cent yearly increases on the approval of a rent control board. They claimed to have signatures of over 9000 Cambridge voters on the petitions...
...second of the program will allow students to concentrate in a specific area of public policy such as welfare, education, or housing, according to their interests. Only one core course will be required during the second year...
...thirties, exposes contradictions through reconstruction's. In the spring issue of Film Quarterly, Judith Gollub says that what attracted Alain Robbe-Grillet to the cinema was its ability to act on two sense simultaneously in a dialectical movement of statement and negation; in other words, soundtrack and image allow for greater possibilities of contradiction. Conventional documentary reconstructs reality through editing and asynchronous sound (voiceovers, etc.) and techniques borrowed form fictional narrative-music, establishing shots, distant shots, etc. Often, conventional documentaries contain footage shot in direct cinema style; however, they do not use it in unreconstructed form. Instead, it is subordinated...
...York Stock Exchange, long castigated by Government and other critics for acting as a private club run for the profit of a privileged few, moved last week to revise its membership. The exchange's Board of Governors caught many Wall Streeters by surprise by voting to allow its members to sell stock in their own firms to the public. At the same time, the board said that by year's end it would consider permitting mutual funds and other financial institutions either to join the exchange as associates or find some way to grant them discounts...