Word: cutoffs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dragon. What precipitated his latest performance could well have been the overthrow and assassination of his late neighbor, South Viet Nam's Ngo Dinh Diem. Although Sihanouk and Diem were bitter enemies, the Prince was shaken by Diem's death and attributed it to the cutoff of Diem's American aid. Possibly determined never to get himself on the same vulnerable spot, Sihanouk moved quickly to lessen his dependence...
...even more isolated as leader of the party. He sees few of his old leftwing supporters outside working hours, even declines colleagues' dinner invitations on the grounds that it would be unfair to listen for hours to one man's views and still enforce his 15-minute cutoff on office interviews with other associates. Men who have worked with him for decades and live in his Hampstead neighborhood have never stepped inside the modest, cluttered house at 12 Southway, where he lives with his wife Mary, a Congregationalist minister's daughter, and their two sons, Robin...
...GROUP LIFE INSURANCE. Kennedy argued that an employer's payments for term life insurance for employees represent income to them and should be taxed as such. He proposed that the company's payments on policies exceeding $5,000 be taxed. The committee settled on a $30,000 cutoff...
...first agreement on a specific hurdle: Britain proposed to abandon Commonwealth preferential tariffs on a list of 400 manufactured goods it normally imports from Canada, New Zealand and Australia. In a mild spirit of compromise, the Europeans agreed to apply the tariff cuts in slow stages, postpone the final cutoff date until 1970. So far as the Common Market Six were concerned, it was a small first step, but experts now detected a new suppleness in the hitherto stiff French position. Delighted at the way things were going, Ted Heath tentatively declared that the step "has undoubtedly improved the atmosphere...
Originated in 1960, dropped in February 1961, and reinstituted during the Berlin buildup last fall, the travel cutoff was touted as a way to reduce the U.S. gold drain. It succeeded more notably in reducing G.I. morale. Servicemen in Europe were delighted by the announcement-and by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's estimate that 6,000 wives and children would be traveling to Europe monthly...