Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...story on the cosmetics industry and the high price of beauty! From now on, if I buy such products I may be a fool, but at least I'll be an educated fool. Indeed, who's to say that the benefits of skin treatments are only skin-deep? One could say that a healthy mind starts with a healthy skin...
...Tehran regime's TV and radio has appealed to Iranians not to allow their country to be turned into another "grim and miserable" Lebanon. But unlike Lebanon, riven by deep religious differences, Iran is a nation of 34 million people who are more or less homogeneous and overwhelmingly (98%) Muslim. What divides Iran today is warring perceptions of the Shah and the direction in which he has pushed his oil-rich remnant of the old Persian empire. A cross section of Iranians interviewed by TIME...
...speed of the transition surprised the musical world and started speculation that Rudel had quarreled with City Opera's board of directors. The company has had some sour notes in recent years. A deep financial crisis?now successfully surmounted?threatened at one point to close the house. Performances have often been slipshod lately, the casting haphazard. Rudel, although tireless, has been away from the house more and more on conducting engagements; he has accepted the directorship of the Buffalo Philharmonic beginning next fall...
...Washington the reaction to Proposition 13 speeded the deep change in federal tax policy. For years, tax laws had focused on making the system more equitable by taking away deductions thought to favor the affluent. But at a TIME Tax Conference in September, Democrats Russell Long and Al Ullman, chairmen of the Senate and House tax-writing committees, proclaimed the era of loophole-closing reform to be over. From now on, they asserted, tax laws will be "economically oriented" packages of cuts designed to relieve the ravages of inflation and spur job-creating investment...
...Social Security. Medicare and federal pensions account for nearly two-thirds of the budget, and in HEW they claim 89c of every dollar. Social Security alone costs $104 billion. Unless the growth of benefits is slowed, the whole Social Security system?as well as the budget?will be in deep trouble. Says Alice Rivlin, director of the Congressional Budget Office: "If you're really concerned about the growth in Government, then you have to go after the uncontrollables." Adds Rudolph Penner, a former economist at OMB under Gerald Ford: "Cutting $30 million here or $100 million there is the approach...