Word: coded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They cannot see Bert Lance as having violated their code, if not the law. They cannot perceive that their insistence erodes trust, hurting the presidency and thus the nation. They have drawn the wagons in a circle and have so far placed Carter's pride and the feelings of their old friend Bert before the good of the country. It is selfishness and arrogance of a sort. In a sound presidency, there is only one final measure of action: Is it in the national interest? Bert Lance no longer is because he played too loose with money...
...hearings on them before adjourning, and take them up in earnest next year; they will probably go through many changes on the way to enactment. In effect, it will take at least another year before the reforms can be transformed into law. Touching any provision of the tax code hits a raw nerve-and not always a selfish one. Treating capital gains as ordinary income, for example, would penalize not only the very rich but also the middle-income salary earner trying to build up an estate for his children through investing in common stocks or real estate. Also...
...than most is Timothy Ringgold, 24, expelled not for cheating but for saying that he knew of cases of unreported cribbing. Recalls Ringgold: "When I left, I threw away all my uniforms. I was sick of the academy." After he lost a federal court suit charging that the honor code was unconstitutional, he "floundered a lot" until he entered Arizona State University last spring. Then Eastern Air Lines Chairman Frank Borman, the former astronaut and old West Pointer ('50) who headed the commission that probed the scandal, wrote encouraging him to go back. "I knew I wouldn...
...honor code has survived unscathed, but dismissal for code violations is no longer mandatory; the academy superintendent may now keep a student in cases where dismissal seems too draconian. The EE 304 cadets thus return to the Point to find some major reforms that they themselves unwittingly...
...impetus. After the dust settled, the town of Gay Head, with an Indian majority, voted both to dismiss the lawyer the town hired to defend the suit against the tribal council and to give the contested land to the Indians. Vague hints that the town might wish to code even more land to the Wampanoags upset the whites, so the Taxpayer's Association initiated legal action...