Word: anties
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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predominantly male crowd watched the game in the Freshman Union, reacting vocally when the Broncos made a good play. "The vocal people are for Denver. The vocally anti-vocal people are for Dallas," one freshman noted...
...Polish government had tried to persuade Carter not to visit either site. The first is a painful reminder that Soviet troops could have intervened in the uprising but instead waited, just across the Vistula River, until Warsaw was leveled; the second recalls for many Poles the fact that anti-Semitism still exists in their country...
...trenchcoat and slightly disheveled appearance contrasting a bit with the regal elegance of his host, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. On the way to the city, they drove along roads that were lined with more security men than well-wishers. Only a few hours earlier there had been five anti-American demonstrations...
...reigned over the vast borough. Middle class values pursued in middle class ways provided a standard ethos uniting people of different ethnic origins, income levels and political persuasions. Brooklyn has absorbed masses of immigrants through the years, starting with the Russian and Polish Jews who fled the poverty and anti-Semitism of their homelands. This group in turn absorbed the immigrants who followed them from Europe and Asia with nary an intolerant word. But to this group--by tradition overwhelmingly liberal, Democratic, tolerant--the most recent population influx is a horse of a different color...
Carter also will recommend two minor anti-inflation measures: 1) elimination of the 4% excise tax on telephone calls, a relic of World War II levies, and 2) a cut, to .5% from .7%, in the payroll tax paid by employers to the unemployment insurance fund. Total savings: $2.3 billion a year. In a symbolic gesture, Carter will propose disallowing business tax deductions for country club fees and for half the cost of working lunches. But he abandoned his idea of taxing capital gains at the same rates as ordinary income...