Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bighearted as always, the Internal Revenue Service said that some taxpayers would be allowed to pay later, but would be charged 6% interest in the meantime. In Congress, Republican Senators accused the Democratic Administration of having played politics by slashing withholding rates to make the tax cut look bigger, proposed eliminating the interest charge for tardy taxpayers. Though the move was defeated, 37 to 29, the Administration let it be known that it was thinking of introducing graduated withholding rates-taking bigger bites out of the higher-income brackets to avoid underwithholding in the future...
...keep their German shepherds mean, hungry and on the alert for escapees, East German police at the Berlin Wall feed the guard dogs just once every 48 hours. The only trouble with such severe rationing is that the dogs themselves often develop a hankering for a bigger bone in the West. In the past year, at least three have slipped the leash to swim or dash into West Berlin...
...Although the use of tape, covered by the new contract, will save the papers almost as much in overtime pay and fringe benefits as they will have to turn over to the typesetters the issue of automation is far from solved. Computerized operations wil soon be a bigger part of publishing, and Big Six is determined to have its say in how the savings are passed along. By his victory last week, intransigent Bert Powers has solidified his position as the Big Six spokesman...
...applause. An actor who misses his first laugh is likely to strain for the next--which is sure failure. Only a quarter of the Loeb's seats were filled for the opening of Eastward Ho, and the audience didn't warm up until the second act. With a bigger audience, a drunk or excited or happy one, the current production might be wonderful Last night it was flat...
...spite of the efforts of the Group Theatre in the 1930's, the hit mentality and star system continued to govern Broadway. Rising costs increased the risk of producing a Broadway show and decreased the number of successful (profitable) ventures. Shows in the fifties had to be bigger money-makers than before to cover their expenses, and to insure large audiences producers would seek out more popular stars (regardless of whether or not they could act). Despite this subservience to popular taste, profits declined as costs rose still more, tickets became more expensive, and New York theatre attendance dropped...