Word: dec
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hurts to know that the President's $200,000 salary yields no more income tax than my $7,000 a year [Dec. 17]. What hurts even more is that his lawyers contrived figuring appears to be perfectly legal under our rich-get-richer tax laws...
...When blame is apportioned . . Who gets the rest? Just about everybody" [Dec. 10]. You can say that again, only please add: including the press. Look at TIME during the past twelve months. How many pages about the impending energy crisis, how many about Watergate? While the house was on fire, you kept lamenting somebody's stealing the petty cash...
...Congratulations to Professor G. Etzel Pearcy, whose concept of a new 38-state union [Dec. 17] also releases budget-starved urban areas from rural domination in state legislatures...
...prodigious jumping power of the flea [Dec. 3] seems to be one of those mysteries that has forever tantalized the mind of man. Aristophanes' comedy The Clouds (423 B.C.) shows Socrates and his students carrying on experiments to determine how many times the length of its own foot a flea can jump...
...made whole" for any losses. Similarly, according to pretrial testimony in the Maheu libel case, Greenspun was assured by an associate of Maheu that "Mr. Hughes isn't going to let you get caught holding the bag" by selling Air West stock at a low price. Around Dec. 31, 1968, the Government charges, Crockett, Greenspun and Charnay unloaded 46,000 snares of Air West stock, or slightly more than 1% of all the shares outstanding. The stock's price skidded from a high of 20 in mid-December to 15% on Dec. 31. Further, the Government charges...