Word: consistencies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Montagnards (mountain or highland people) were named by the French. They consist of two dozen or so linguistically distinct tribes whose forebears arrived long before the Vietnamese, though both groups probably came from China...
...entire Committee will consist of no more than 20 members...
...Republican platform also pledges Nixon to tax reform, but what that might consist of is a mystery. The President once talked of providing $16 billion to local communities for property tax relief, but he now promises unspecified modest.sums to reduce property taxes for the elderly only. Administration officials hint that they have in mind some other tax reforms that would encourage investment; these changes look like the opposite of McGovern's. Commerce Secretary Peter Peterson talks of cutting capital gains taxes. The idea is to allow investors to deduct certain sums representing the extent to which the real value...
...Review Committee also recommends that Dean Dunlop converse ad hoc Faculty committees, consisting of approximately five people, to look for the three additional Faculty members. These ad hoc committees should consist of the chairman of the Afro-American Studies Department, plus two Faculty members from other disciplines...
Hanoi publicly insists that any postwar government should consist of representatives of the present South Vietnamese regime, the National Liberation Front and a neutral third party; that would obviously set the stage for an accommodation between the Communists and the other factions in the government once the Americans departed. But the official North Vietnamese newspaper Nhan Dan suggested last week that Hanoi would accept "necessary measures to ensure that neither side dominates the political life in South Viet Nam," at least for a transitional period. In that case, the North Vietnamese would be bridgeably close to President Nixon...