Word: crediters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CREDIT AND CAPITAL GAINS. Reaffirming an earlier vote, the committee repealed the 7% tax credit for business investment in machinery and equipment, but maintained the exemptions for the railroads and aircraft industry. Finally, it went beyond the Nixon Administration, but not as far as the House, in taxing the capital gains of upper-income taxpayers. Retaining the six-month period for which assets must be held to qualify for capital-gains exemptions, it denied the use of the 25% tax ceiling on such gains to people earning more than $10,000 in tax-preferred income...
...Dear Sir," begins the letter. "This sweater was a Christmas present. Would you please credit it to my account." A mundane note, perhaps. But not when the writer is returning a red cashmere pullover that was a present from her husband, John F. Kennedy. Scribbled across the letter are several notations by the unidentified store's credit department, questioning where the sweater was actually purchased and finally deciding to settle for an $18.50 credit. The latest tidbit of Jacqueline Kennedy memorabilia is soon to be put on the block along with three similar letters (expected price: several hundred dollars...
Withold academic credit from any courses offered by the three branches of ROTC at Harvard in the future...
...reaffirmed this position, stating "That the principle governing ROTC be that it operates as any other ordinary extracurricular activities with no special privilege or facilities granted either by contract or informal arrangement." The federal law governing ROTC requires that instructors be accorded academic rank, and that courses be given credit...
...view the university professors as the authors of national policies is to credit them with far more power than they actually possess. The role of intellectuals has been more to justify actions after the fact than to make a critical difference in fundamental decisions...