Word: code
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tuscumbia, Ala., "the city that gave birth to the Ku Klux Klan." Actually, Carter had denounced the Klan in his speech in Tuscumbia, which, anyway, was not the birthplace of the racist organization. Earlier, addressing a white audience in Mississippi, Reagan had spoken of "states' rights," a longtime code word for opposition to desegregation. He also had received, and quickly renounced, an unsolicited endorsement from one faction of the Klan...
...elder King, Coretta Scott King, former Ambassador Andrew Young and Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson, Carter attempted to rally the black vote he needs in force to carry his native region. Said he: "You've seen in this campaign the stirrings of hate and the rebirth of code words like 'states' rights, [and] a campaign reference to the Ku Klux Klan relating to the South. Racism has no place in this country...
...cause of the complaints is changes in the U.S. tax code. Beginning in 1976, the Government began pushing up the tax brackets of Americans working outside the U.S. It also tightened the rules on exemptions for the benefits many receive while employed overseas. The equivalent of an apartment renting for $700 a month in Chicago, for example, might run $2,000 or more in Saudi Arabia. Private English-language schools there can cost as much as $5,000 a year for each child. The tax changes that finally went into effect in 1978 made it almost prohibitively expensive for independent...
...overseas residence had enjoyed a $25,000 exemption, a measure that left most executive salaries untouched. In 1977, however, Senator William Proxmire of Wisconsin gave his famous Golden Fleece of the Year award to the Treasury Department for its efforts to delay enactment of changes in the Internal Revenue code that would have sharply increased taxes for those he called "mink-swathed Americans who spend their waking hours in gambling casinos in Monte Carlo." The following year the rules on the income tax exclusion and the taxation of benefits were tightened...
...kills in selfdefense. And in condemning abortion we condemn ourselves. We should all feel guilty, after each abortion, for we are all part of the society that, of necessity, allows it. The state legislature has only been mistaken in trying to force this emotion through the code of the law. But as "the letter killeth," so do the abortionists, and which is worse...