Word: compliants
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Breaks. Confusion was part of the picture, but there is little doubt that U.S. taxpayers, who are among the most compliant in the world, are in near revolt against a system that practically no one still defends. More loophole than law, it allows many big taxpayers to escape scot-free while it grinds ever more out of the small taxpayers. Some tax breaks, it is true, serve as useful economic incentives, but in the past few years federal income taxes on corporations have been slashed more than can be justified. Federal income taxes for individuals have been reduced...
There are, to be sure, significant arguments in favor of seniority. It provides stability and expertness, it eliminates the possibility that outside pressure groups or cliques could elect compliant chairmen, and it guarantees access to power to representatives of minority groups-if they will only wait their turns. Without the seniority system, for example, it is doubtful that Harlem's flamboyant Adam Clayton Powell could ever have become head of the powerful House Education and Labor Committee. Moreover, it is by no means true that senior Congressmen are all incompetent or senile. One case in point is Carl Hayden...
...Cuba, a development that has been watched for months. A White House official said that the U.S. views the base "with utmost seriousness" and "at the right moment will take the action that seems indicated." Such tough language seemed to be dictated more by a desire not to appear compliant than by a real threat in Cuba. Yet there is no doubt that Soviet power is extending its reach around the globe (see THE WORLD). Moreover, it is doing so at a time when the Nixon Administration has moved sharply to reduce its commitments abroad...
...promising and innuendo. DOCTOR KILLER. A "downright dangerous" patient, actually a man-hater who must dominate her physician to meet her own psychological needs. If she succeeds in seducing him, she will spread word of her triumph to destroy him socially and professionally. BABY DOLL. The wide-eyed, superficially compliant "young thing" (but of any age), who tries to make the doctor feel "You are such a great big strong man and I'm such a tiny, itty-bitty little girl." Her pliability is balanced by a hostility toward men that will eventually cut the physician down to size...
...group of radicals bent on preventing the construction of a school on Randall's Island. Without any convictions to mask, Stanley has little difficulty joining up. In fact, the only thing polarized in Stanley's life is his women. Heidi from Queens is sweet, roundish and compliant. Darleen from Harlem is bitter, lithe and defiant. Why does she go out with...