Word: broads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ISRAEL. With a so-called Mecca Declaration, named for Islam's holiest city, the delegates unanimously declared a jihad, or holy war, against Israel, using their combined "military, economic and political resources-including oil." The proclamation proposed broad new economic sanctions against Israel, along the lines of the 35-year-old Arab League boycott...
When it comes to cutting taxes, the White House will naturally have a much easier time. Reagan aides last week gave the broad outlines of the tax reduction proposals that they will soon be sending to Congress. The Administration will suggest an annual 10% cut in personal income taxes and reductions in business taxes by means of accelerated depreciation on new investments. Both measures were advocated by the President during the fall campaign. Treasury Secretary Donald Regan indicated last week, though, that the Administration will not advocate any further reduction in the capital gains tax on long-term investment profits...
...broad look at societies from the Kwakiutl Indians in British Columbia to the blacks of Albany, N.Y., Gilder has produced a 306-page ode to the economic and moral benefits of unfettered capitalism. Some Reaganauts expect Wealth and Poverty to become a classic of supply-side economics, the school of thought that believes Government policy should focus more on helping private enterprise boost the output of goods and services...
...others have observed, American female innocence tends to spoil within hours if left unrefrigerated in Europe, so the supply never equals the demand. French model agents in particular regularly scout provincial talent suppliers in the U.S. As might be expected, blue-eyed blonds, undiscovered Christie Brinkleys with brows as broad and untracked as the Great Plains in 1820, interest the foreign raiding parties most. In Paris and Rome, brunettes, with a few exceptions, are only mildly exciting, unless they have black skins andean be regarded as exotics, like the exquisitely attenuated Somalian, Iman, or her friend, the first black superstar...
...long encouraged students to get a broad education," Oglesby Paul '38, director of admissions of the Medical School, said yesterday, adding, "We don't care what they major in. If we find a student has had very little humanities, we get disturbed...