Word: bucket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bucket Brigade. One idea being weighed in Washington is that VAT revenues ultimately would go to states to help pay for public schooling costs, and thus lighten the load on home owners, who pay for education out of their heavy-and increasingly unpopular-property taxes. In sum, Nixon could promise during his election campaign to reduce property taxes and then make up for this loss by proposing VAT after the elections. The Administration calculates that in order to reduce or stabilize the residential property tax by eliminating that part of it devoted to schools, it must raise about $12 billion...
Basically, the VAT system collects a percentage of the price that is added to a product at each stage of production and marketing. It also enables businessmen to pass the entire cost of the tax along, bucket-brigade fashion, until it gets to the consumer...
...them in meadow green, wheatland yellow, marine blue, firebolt orange, spruce green, grapefruit yellow, classic bronze and crimson red. They have power-operated sun roofs, bucket seats, air conditioning. Some even have beds, refrigerator, toilet. These are the new amenities on the lowly old truck, which is propelling Detroit into a truck-making boom...
...senescent epoch, even the young are senile. America in the '50s was undergoing adolescence. Again. I was its sudden, unbidden spokesyouth. But surely there have been free alterations since 1951. Nonfiction is in the bucket seat and drives mankind. By now I should be a literary footnote. But no: the paperback sold more than 3,000,000 copies between 1953 and 1964. And even more between then and now. How do you figure that? I mean, those glancing insights, those adolescent knight-errantries, aren't they old news? Haven't our tastes altered 180 degrees...
...SALE-1970 ten-door Boeing 747, radio, heater, factory air cond., 365 bucket seats, only 1,000,000 actual miles. Asking $22 million. Call...