Word: alterations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...program, with the indigestible title Tax Reform for Fairness, Simplicity and Economic Growth, is gaining adherents, though swarms of lobbyists for just about everything from corporations to charities are still determined to kill or alter it. The special interests love the brier patch of the current tax code, which takes up 33 feet of shelf space and has enough shadowy havens to hide almost anything. "It was easier to get tax legislation than take other action," says Chapoton. Before long, the U.S. tax system was setting industrial policy. "Investments were being based on tax considerations," explains Egger. "Prices in real...
...Ordway evokes an earlier era visually, acoustically it is right up to date. Like its counterparts in Baltimore and San Francisco, it is "tunable." Unlike them, though, the hall's adjustable panels, which can alter the reverberation time from 1.4 to 2.2 sec., are not hung awkwardly in public view, but instead are hidden in the ceiling and recessed behind slats in the walls. New halls usually take some time before they sort themselves out acoustically: at first hearing it appears that the Ordway's sound, designed by Acoustician R. Lawrence Kirkegaard of Chicago, is rich and clear...
...routine continues until he meets Sheila Doyle, a strong-willed woman who has recently changed her life by jettisoning her husband and their four children. She tries to alter Bobby's life as well, when he is assigned a major story and learns that a popular, born-again Christian baseball pitcher, who hopes to parlay his piety into a political career, deliberately drove a rival player to his death...
...report from the Committee on Housing, Jessica E. Levin '87, described the proposals to alter transfer housing policy. The Committee on Housing, chaired by Dean of the College John B. Fox '59, is responsible for deciding housing policies...
Mulroney said he also plans to alter the controversial "back-In" provision of the 1980 National Energy Program. The rule stipulates that the Canadian government is entitled to 25% of any successful offshore oil discovery by a foreign firm. The party's position during the campaign last summer was to exact the same share as before, but turn it over to private Canadian companies willing to pay for the share instead of having the government keep it. From the point of view of U.S. firms, that still means an off-putting surrender of a quarter of any new discovery...