Word: coding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...example, how many readers are aware of the fact that our city has a 35-foot height limit in its biggest zoning district? Shouldn't we question whether this is an appropriate limit for an international city of today? One need not support all proposed changes in the zoning code (like the one finally rejected for the Baird Atomic complex) to support some needed liberalizations in what we allow our profit-minded apartment developers to build for all price ranges...
...conscientious objector to one "who, by reason of religious training and belief, is conscientiously opposed to participation in war in any form." Virtually all draft boards have interpreted those words to mean that 1) a draftee's opposition cannot be the product of a merely personal moral code, and 2) his opposition must be directed against all wars, not one specific conflict like Viet Nam. Last week both of those assumptions were declared unconstitutional by Charles Edward Wyzanski, chief judge of the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts...
...religious. "Congress," he said, "unconstitutionally discriminated against atheists, agnostics and men like Sisson who, whether they be religious or not, are motivated by profound moral beliefs which constitute the central convictions of their beings." To critics who argue that the sincerity of such a personal code is too hard to ascertain, Wyzanski tartly replied, "Often it is harder to detect a fraudulent adherent to a religious creed than to recognize a sincere moral protestant. We can all discern Thoreau's integrity more quickly than we might detect some churchman's hypocrisy. The suggestion that courts cannot tell...
Ideally, Congress should scrap the entire unwieldy tax code and start over with a law almost free of exemptions and .with rates as much as one-third lower than those now in force. "Short of a whole new law, Congress might quell much of today's uproar by closing some of the more flagrant routes to tax avoidance, which deprive Treasury of $50 billion a year in potential revenue...
With or without White House backing, Congress should strive to redraw the tax code into something much fairer and less complicated. But serious tax reform will have to attack special interests all at once if it is to have much chance of enactment. Piecemeal efforts invite public apathy, which makes it easier for Congress to acquiesce to the demands of loophole beneficiaries. When tax-code reform is accomplished, Congress will be free to act on some new and imaginative tax ideas, such as Nixon's plan to offer special incentives for the rebuilding of ghettos and Economist Walter Heller...