Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though the time has passed when eyes were piously averted to avoid soiling Japan's Emperor Hirohito with a commoner's glance, the Emperor, 66, still enjoys nearly hermetic privacy within his wooded 200-acre estate in Tokyo. Now the hounds of modernism are baying over the palace grounds. A 36-story skyscraper is going up a mile from the palace, and court chamberlains have made the ghastly discovery that anyone with a pair of 10-power binoculars can peer straight into the Emperor's living quarters. A quick planting of large evergreens ought to solve that...
...could they be? Nobody checks or audits even the acknowledged expenses. As for banned contributions, companies can easily lend favored candidates their company planes or public relations experts and give cash through individual executives. And nothing stops individuals from $5,000 gifts (pros make it $3,000 to avoid gift-tax reports) to as many committees as they please. Meanwhile, unions give via so-called independent affiliates, such as the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s Committee on Political Education, which in 1966 handed Democrats some...
...forced them to mi grate to the United States. Then, we had recordings. In other words, the pianistic world was at our fingertips." Even today, Graffman often refers to recordings by other pianists in developing his own musical outlook. "When I first work on a piece, I deliberately avoid hearing other performances. Then, when it is respectably well along, I listen to all recordings, because every great artist will have something...
...Johnson's midyear decision to raise his unfulfilled demand for a 6% surcharge to a demand for 10%. The President and his aides, basing their case on a debatable vision of future trouble, argued that only by raising taxes could the soaring federal deficit be shaved enough to avoid inflation. Arkansas Democrat Wilbur Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, insisted that the kind of trouble he saw-cost-push inflation from rising wages and prices-might only be aggravated by higher taxes. Besides, he argued, the economy was not nearly so strong as the Administration maintained...
...recent spending cuts will begin to shrink the huge federal deficit, many economists see considerably less reason than hitherto for a tax increase in election-year 1968. And a growing number of people in the fiscal area of the Government no longer argue that a rise is necessary to avoid disaster...