Word: counts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...population of New York has declined slightly over the past ten years, to 7.8 million, the city work force had grown by 37% to 338,000. The figures are approximate, since a symptom of the city's difficulties is that its various bureaucracies cannot agree on whom to count on the payroll. The work force, moreover, has increased unevenly. The line agencies-police, firemen, sanitation men-declined slightly in the past decade. The agencies involved in helping the poor were enlarged by about a third...
Soon after his release, Taylor married. He and his wife Helen, a secretary, moved first to Onsted, Mich., later to the Seattle suburbs. Last December after separating from his wife, Taylor settled down in Houston. There he was indicted last week on three counts of aggravated sexual abuse, one count of attempted aggravated rape, and the rape of a 16-year-old pregnant girl. He is also likely to be indicted for the murder of a 21-year-old go-go dancer...
...membership is no longer mandatory for representatives sitting in the People's Assembly, Egypt's parliament, and Sadat has allowed small, informal party groupings to develop. Although the assembly debates legislation and occasionally calls government officials to task, it is the President who makes the decisions that count. He carried on negotiations with Henry Kissinger largely in camera, and Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy, who sat in, is the only other Egyptian who knows all that went...
...attack comes, the South can count on numerical superiority on the ground. Its tough, well-trained 625,000-man regular army would face only 470,000 Northern soldiers. Moreover, many of the South's officers gained valuable battlefield experience in South Viet Nam. In the air, however, the North enjoys a 3-to-1 advantage in planes. The South must therefore rely on U.S. fighter-bombers based at two airfields in South Korea and on the carriers of the Seventh Fleet...
...scale is not to bring down the affluent, but to raise up the deprived." Thus unlike some egalitarians, he would not raise taxes on salary income, remove tax breaks for homeowners or even touch the investment tax credit for businesses. But, he points out, under present law wealthy taxpayers count only half their capital gains in calculating their taxable income; Okun would reduce or even eliminate that discount. He also favors tightening up on federal estate taxes, especially to wipe out "the generation-skipping trust, by which Great Grandpa can provide abundantly for his children and grandchildren while ensuring that...