Word: claiming
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Ford said his proposal would save companies and individuals $28 billion, "the biggest single tax cut in our history." Yet the claim was deceptive. Ford's figures were based on the 1974 permanent rates, which did not take into account the projected impact of the temporary cut now in effect. The present rates would have produced a $17 billion reduction in taxes next year. Thus, in reality, the Ford cut would amount to $11 billion, which would translate into an increase of $2 to $8 in the typical wage earner's weekly paycheck...
...leaders of HIM are a man and a woman known to outsiders only as "the Two." Eyewitnesses describe them as being in their 40s and having glassy, hollow-looking eyes. According to a flyer they distributed at one meeting in California, they claim to have come from the same "kingdom" as Jesus Christ. Jesus, the flyer read, left earth "in a cloud of light (what humans refer to as UFOs) and moves and returns in the same manner ... There are two individuals here now who have also come from the next kingdom, incarnate as humans ... and will soon demonstrate that...
Probably because the gallery copes, too. It's called Off The Wall and the people who run it claim only to show short films in a coffeehouse setting and occoasional pictures on the walls. But they're modest...
Fourth and fifth places went to Brown runners Lehan and Leavelle, with Harvard freshmen Jamie Kiggen and Peter Levine coming back to claim sixth and seventh places respectively. Rounding out the long line of Crimson finishers were Will Brownsberger (eighth) und Brian Finn (ninth...
FORD AND HIS CRONIES are not willing to give New York breathing space. The city is to blame for the crisis, they claim. The administration consistently refuses to recognize New York's desperate attempts to overhaul and reorganize its budget, because such a recognition might imply that the city deserves help. Ford told a meeting of midwestern small city mayors two weeks ago, "Your constituents wouldn't tolerate it if you ran your cities as badly as New York City has been run." As Ford portrays it, there is no way to help an overgrown government that has been wasting...