Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bugaboo of the Republican right, the income tax, was left untouched. Instead, Administration and congressional budgeteers hiked levies on oil and chemicals, advanced the collection dates for various taxes, and increased fees on such items as tickets for international air travel and cruises. Except for a leap in the amount of personal income subject to Social Security taxes from $48,000 to $51,300 next Jan. 1, the tax boosts do not directly affect large numbers of people -- that is, voters...
...October to remain in effect through the first week of February. By declaring the Postal Service's deficit "off budget," the number crunchers "saved" $1.7 billion. A similar bit of wizardry -- prepaying a $3 billion Pentagon payroll in the 1989 fiscal year -- "reduced" the 1990 deficit by that amount. Bush was in no position to resist the sleight of hand: the legerdemain was originally concocted by his budget director, Richard Darman...
...most sweeping of the panel's 30 recommendations concern financial disclosure. Elected officials, high-ranking civil servants and candidates for city office would have to make public the exact amount of their income and investments, including their homes, and even list the names of their stockbrokers. Lobbyists who received more than $1,000 a year to influence city officials would have to disclose their transactions each quarter. Taken together, the proposed regulations could affect as many as 1,500 of Los Angeles' 45,000 employees, as well as an undetermined number of lobbyists and candidates...
Nothing else we do will amount to much if we cannot bequeath a habitable planet to our children...
...matter of basic knowledge, the U.S. does not support Israel solely because it is a democracy or a Jewish state. Israel is a stategic asset of unprecedented proportions. I can provide Larew with military and economic data that will prove this beyond a doubt. Egypt receives nearly the same amount of U.S. foreign aid as Israel, though it shows no signs of any sort of democracy. The administration is currently sending legislation through Congress that will permit the sale of M-1 tanks to Saudi Arabia. Remember, the U.S. granted Iran most-favored nation status under the Shah, when...