Word: bill
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...policy. Last week Nixon went against the advice of some senior aides in recommending repeal of the 7% business-investment tax credit as part of his tax package (see BUSINESS). Repeal of the credit is primarily an anti-inflationary measure, but the predominantly Republican business community will pay the bill. The President's other tax proposals-reducing the burden on the poor, halving the surcharge, which weighs most heavily on those of modest means, shrinking loopholes used mainly by the affluent-also tend to benefit Nixon's nonsupporters more than those who elected...
...slowly. In London, Bernadette made no secret of her mistrust of O'Neill: "He is not only a political hypocrite, but a particularly poor political hypocrite." The Unionists will never carry out reforms, she said, because the party survives on discrimination and "by introducing the human rights bill, it signs its own death warrant." That, of course, is indeed O'Neill's dilemma in dealing with the reactionaries in his own party-and part and parcel of Northern Ireland's once and present agony...
...bill will now go to the Bundesrat, the upper house, where it probably will have swift passage. In the Bundestag, there may be some opposition from the Bavarian affiliates of the Christian Democrats, one of whose ministers cast the sole nein vote in the Cabinet session. But the majority of the Bundestag seemed prepared to endorse the Grand Coalition's plan to shift the guilt in Germany more specifically upon the shoulders of those who actually committed the crimes...
...doubles were highlighted by the varsity debut of sophomore Bill Brock at the number one spot. Brock, substituting for Jarvis, teamed with Levin to win, 6-4, 6-4, Jarvis is suffering from a sore...
Beside the two seniors, the bottom half of the Crimson batting line-up combined for three important runs. They started the scoring in the second with two out when sophomore Bill Kelly doubled, second-baseman Bill Cherry singled him home, and catcher Jack Turco scored Cherry with another single. In the fourth, Kelly doubled once again, advanced on an infield hit by Cherry, and scored on Turco's sacrifice...