Word: citizenships
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ashamed of my fellow retirees who assume that retirement from remunerative labor also means retiring from the obligations of citizenship. Social Security benefits should be taxed as income, particularly the portion that is paid by employers. The graduated income tax, with double exemptions, protects those who are poor from hardship or impoverishment...
...unorthodox Russian writing, Metropol, was denounced in the Soviet press as salacious and subversive. The Soviet secret police, the KGB, began to hound him in an effort to drive him into exile. In 1980, Aksyonov and his wife Maya succumbed to pressure and left the Soviet Union. His citizenship was then taken away by the Supreme Soviet, and the Literary Gazette announced that he had chosen "the path of betrayal to the motherland...
...overflow of talent and energy. So it is not difficult to see Glazer's trials and Messenger's messages as a form of special pleading. Fortunately, these episodes are not the whole story, merely parts of an epic that embraces 1,000 years of second-string citizenship. The novel's heroes are all named George Mills, from the Greatest Grandfather, an 11th century Northumbrian stableboy, to a furniture mover in East St. Louis...
...that the tenets of democracy are far from obvious where the nation's capital is concerned. Despite common misperceptions, the District is entitled to only one, non-voting representative in Congress although its 630,000 citizens do pay federal and local taxes and bear all other responsibilities of U.S. citizenship...
...member Rumanian Orthodox Episcopate of America, has faced Justice Department charges that during World War II he led an anti-Semitic group in Rumania and incited riots that led to the deaths of hundreds of Christians and Jews. In 1980, the archbishop gave up his U.S. citizenship, acquired in 1957, rather than face trial on the allegations. Last week in Detroit, in the midst of a deportation trial that was to air the charges, the prelate abruptly agreed to leave the U.S. Justice dropped charges that he persecuted Jews, but in return Trifa, 68, admitted that he had been...