Word: demands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Taxes must be cut not only for business but for everybody, and must be cut not only this year but again and again in the future; so said most of the speakers, echoing a public demand that has become politically irresistible and economically sensible. To a great degree, the new consensus for cutting is the result of inflation. Several years of rising prices have made a tax system that may have once seemed moderate and fair both harsh and inequitable, because it produces illusory gains in incomes, profits and home values that are taxed as heavily as if they were...
...news articles and television documentaries have alerted other vets and some Congressmen. The heat is on the V.A. This April, the House Committee on Veterans Affairs viewed a television documentary produced in Chicago, where local veterans are particularly well-informed about Agent Orange. Fourteen Congressmen were sufficiently shocked to demand a report from the V.A. and the General Accounting Office. The Committee tentatively plans to hold hearings on Agent Orange this fall, but the V.A. still refuses even to hear the complaints of affected veterans...
...health hazards faced by Americans, has received so many complaints about the use of this herbicide that it has established a special dioxin project. The agency has also issued regulations requiring that those who want to use the herbicide prove that it does not harm people, an ironic demand in the face of available evidence. But the EPA has stopped short of forbidding the herbicide's use. In April, the agency published an elaborate defense of its policy, providing exhaustive appendices and tales of scientific studies documenting the harmful effects of dioxin on laboratory animals. The statistics drone...
...price guideli-, er, standards might vary from company to company. One idea is to demand that each company raise prices 1% to 1.5% less than it did last year...
...only a few companies have pulled out. Polaroid canceled its dealings with a South African licensee because its film was being used on the infamous passbooks that blacks and coloreds are required to carry and show upon demand to the police. Citibank will no longer make loans to the South African government; the First Pennsylvania Bank will give no loans of any kind. GM, Kodak and Control Data have said they will not expand their South African operations...