Word: code
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...elder Fusco also leads Harvard's defensive corps, usually working with sophomore Ken Code (2-5-7), back after missing the last game before exams because of illness. Junior Neil Sheehy (2-3-5) and senior Alan Litchfield (1-7-8), the team's steadiest defensive defenseman, comprise the second pair...
Taken one by one, almost all of these breaks have something to be said for them. Those for individuals were thought necessary to remedy inequities in the tax code; those for corporations were supposed to stimulate investment that the nation needs. But most economists now agree that the effect of dumping them all into the tax code at once, on top of a 23% three-year slash in individual income tax rates, is potentially disastrous. James Schlesinger, a veteran of the Nixon, Ford and Carter Cabinets and a Ph.D. in economics, calls it "the most irresponsible fiscal action of modern...
Amid all these great projects, however, the case of A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. vs. U.S. was working its way through the legal system. The four Schechter brothers, who ran a small kosher poultry business in Brooklyn, had been convicted of several violations of the NRA code, including the sale of diseased poultry. "If I'd known how much this appeal was going to cost," Joseph Schechter later complained of his $60,000 legal fees, "I probably would have gone to jail." But it was this tawdry case that inspired Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, stroking his white beard...
...industry under the aegis of General Johnson, who characteristically summed up the social philosophy of cooperating for the sake of recovery as "that blah-blah." All through the sweltering summer of 1933, bands of lobbyists and executives wandered in and out of Washington offices, trying to figure out which code covered them and what it was supposed to say. Johnson managed to get the entire cotton textile industry organized in June. But Henry Ford, who accounted for 21% of all auto sales, refused to have anything to do with such Government interference, and Johnson had no power to coerce anyone...
...humanitarian" distinction is nonsense. The South Africans only build hospitals or schools for Blacks because they must; money funneled to the country for such purposes will only free up other funds for military, internal security force, and the other agencies needed to enforce the country's diabolical code...