Word: bypass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...court-ordered busing could proceed until the exhaustion of all appeals, if busing was solely "for the purpose of achieving a balance among students with respect to race." Faced with that ukase, federal judges have done the only thing they thought proper. By and large, they have managed to bypass the order. As a result, though the increase is far less than last year, total busing this fall will...
...contretemps raises several questions. Why, for example, did the White House initially bypass the Government's formal economic control mechanisms and jawbone against auto boosts that were not likely to get through the Price Commission anyway? Quite possibly, aides wanted Nixon rather than Grayson to get credit for stopping the rise. Indeed, TIME learned last week that Rumsfeld never asked Grayson what the commission was likely to do, and did not even tell the price czar about the jawboning until after it had begun...
...McGovern gets along without Meany and Daley will be the ultimate test of the New Politics. If McGovern can win without them, he will have proved that a candidate can bypass such traditional intermediaries and go directly to the people. He will have shown both the labor hierarchy and the big-city machine to be in a more advanced state of decay than anybody had thought. At this point it looks as if McGovern will have to do without their services. Both Meany and Daley have made it clear that they have been mortally offended, and neither...
...Graustein formula is a rule. Harvard has many rules. When they don't want to give you something, they cite a rule. When they want to give you something, they find a way to bypass the rule. You wanted something that they didn't want to give...
PERSONAL TAXES. In an astute political move, McGovern decided to bypass the myriad special-interest groups that have influenced previous tax-reform bills and simply propose a minimum tax of 75% of the statutory rates on all incomes over $50,000. The Nelson bill sets the minimum at 50% of the posted tax rate on income exceeding $12,000. Under McGovern's plan, for example, a taxpayer with an income of $150,000 could take advantage of all legal tax maneuvers on the first $50,000; but on the other $100,000, he would be liable for three-quarters...