Word: campaigners
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Faced with such unpleasant responsibilities, what did Washington do? Once again, it lost itself in a politically irresistible orgy of tax reduction. By voting to fulfill George Bush's campaign promise and cut capital-gains taxes, House Republicans and renegade Democrats jumped at a short-term boost in revenues against a long-term loss. The giveaway fractured the foundation of the landmark 1986 tax-reform law. The drain on the Treasury could be compounded when the measure reaches the Senate, where it is expected to pass, and Democrats try to extend the tax breaks on individual retirement accounts. It seemed...
Early this year, the capital-gains cut looked like a pledge that could not be redeemed. It was one of the few campaign issues on which George Bush took a beating from Michael Dukakis; Bush's congressional allies introduced legislation, but with no real hope of passage. When the proposal began to gather surprising momentum, Democratic leaders denounced the idea as a giveaway to Bush's rich friends and thundered about a "defining issue" -- one on which Democrats should hold fast to demonstrate just what the difference is between their party and the Republicans. For Bush to prevail...
Director of Human Resources Anne H. Taylor, who for more than a year headed Harvard's campaign to stop the election of a support staff union, will return to a position in the Office of the General Counsel after spending little more than a year as the head of personnel...
...leaders of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW), which is currently finalizing its contract with Harvard, said the union had not asked Taylor to leave the position, but that added "support staff members were uncomfortable when she took the job, given the anti-union campaign...
Before HUCTW's election in May 1987, Taylor led Harvard's active campaign to encourage the clerical and technical workers at the University to vote against unionization. About three months after the union won its election, Taylor became director of human resources...