Word: cuts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ever since the middle of 1964 I have urged that we should cut our losses by extricating ourselves from the Viet Nam conflict under carefully planned conditions that would result in minimum damage to our interests and authority around the world. If that is what the Nixon Administration is at long last seeking to achieve, the effort has my sympathy...
...hold the oil-depletion allowance at its present 27½%, the Finance Committee bowed to public pressure to attack what many regard as the most egregious of tax shelters. Beaten, Long himself led a move to reduce the allowance to 23% - a higher figure than the House-approved cut to 20% - hoping to forestall an even greater reduction. The Senate version of the bill substantially reduces the additional taxes to be collected from the oil industry. Where the House bill would have raised the industry's taxes by $400 million a year, the Senate measure will raise only...
...Castro days, the harvest period ran from January to March. As productivity has declined, the cane cutting has become more and more prolonged. Castro began his so-called 1970 harvest this July, and he plans to press on for almost a full year, even though he will have to cut immature cane-thus jeopardizing the 1971 crop-and throw as many as 1,000,000 of Cuba's 8,200,000 people into the effort...
...town with his wife and children examines his bizarre behavior at a drugstore (a childhood hangout). "It seemed to him now that he had gone to the drugstore on purpose that morning. . . . It had been intended to satisfy some passing and unnamed need of his, but the adventure had cut too deep in his memory, and into what was more than mere memory . . . cut beyond all the good sense and reasonableness that made life seem worthwhile-or even tolerable." Matt finds his dark face-his hostile violent face-"a monstrous obtrusion on the relatively bright scene that was reflected...
...year, the loss had turned into a modest over-all surplus of $400,000. Every indication is that this year's predicted deficit will also be cut when the actual figures are totaled...