Word: congresses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With the aftermath of gas lines in California and on the East Coast, they have to come around. My own belief and my own hope is that if I can present the case to the public clearly, the Congress will...
...Congress itself that wrote the mishmash of laws that the department tries to administer. Still, the department has added to its own woes...
With the decline of the manned program came an equal lack of enthusiasm for automated missions to explore the planets. In 1972, with help from the White House, Congress eliminated the "Grand Tour" project, which would have taken advantage of a rare (once every 180 years) planetary alignment to survey the entire outer solar system. Those missions that were approved often did not receive funding for complete analysis of the return data. Others--to map the moon and check it for metal deposits, to research solar phenomena, to rendezvous with Halley's Comet--never got past appropriations subcommittees...
...Congress might place limitations on the refund, but if Chrysler really loses $400 million this year, it could collect as much as $186 million. That is the amount it might have had to pay on a $400 million profit, assuming the usual 46% corporate tax rate. If Chrysler makes money again, it would not be able to offset those earnings with this year's loss, and the Treasury would start to get its money back from Chrysler's higher taxes. A dispensation from the loss carry-forward provisions stands a fair chance in Congress...
...journalist questions the need to balance the rights of a free press against other rights in society, including the rights of defendants. But the degree of balance is what counts, and the balance is tilting against the press. As a result, a backlash against the courts has begun in Congress, with the introduction of many bills designed to shore up the rights of journalists. That is a mixed blessing. Spelling out rights that were assumed to exist under the general protection of the First Amendment may very well result in limiting those rights. Most of the press would much rather...