Word: crackdowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Similar pleas from restaurateurs and unions defeated a harsher plan by John F. Kennedy in 1961 to put a $4 to $7 limit on the deductibility of business meals. The greatest irony of the expense-account imbroglio is that the people likely to be most hurt by a crackdown are not high-living executives but modestly paid waiters and kitchen help...
...crackdown on nonconformity...
Some sort of crackdown appears inevitable. There are two choices: "Deprivation of faculties" (in common parlance, defrocking) and outright excommunication. The Vatican might also consider Lefebvre "outside the church," without taking any specific action...
They include teachers and policemen, postal workers and bus drivers, health-lab technicians and jail keepers, IRS and Secret Service clerks. All are on a public payroll-and all have connived to be simultaneously on the public dole. Last week, in the latest crackdown against a special breed of welfare cheater, 164 civil servants in Chicago and New York City were indicted for double-dealing an extra slice of the taxpayers' pie. Said U.S. Attorney Sam Skinner in Chicago: "The problem is immense. There is an astonishing lack of respect for law from public employees. We rest our whole...
...rights does not constitute interference in the internal affairs of other states." In retaliation, the Kremlin denounced the new Administration and Carter personally in the strongest terms yet, stepped up a press campaign to expose human rights abuses (some real, some fancied) in the West, and undertook a new crackdown on human rights activists and other dissidents in the Soviet Union...