Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Uncle Sam at tax time can expect that, with virtually the same certainty as death, a dunning notice will follow. But when someone overpays the IRS, the reaction is sometimes silence. Thanks to Linda Johnson, an IRS examiner in Memphis, that will soon change. She complained to her Senator, Democrat Albert Gore, that when taxpayers in certain categories failed to subtract already withheld sums in calculating what they owe the Treasury, the IRS simply pocketed their surplus payment without telling them. Urging superiors to change the rules so these people will get refunds, she argued, "It was stealing from...
Nonetheless, Ohio Democrat Howard Metzenbaum, chairman of the Senate antitrust subcommittee and a vocal critic of big mergers, immediately objected to the proposed combination. He acknowledged that the deal did not appear to violate the Government's guidelines for "horizontal concentration" within an industry, but asserted that those "guidelines are clearly inadequate for a complete evaluation of this merger." The Senator expressed concern about companies being involved in both the production and distribution of cable-TV programming. Metzenbaum noted that in most communities there is only one cable operator. He fears that such operators might rely too heavily on programs...
Like sophists, Anderson the liberal Democrat and Jacobsen the Reagan Republican constantly provoke each other into arguments to keep their minds alive...
...wins plaudits from colleagues in both parties; a straight arrow whose spotless personal history includes a 25-year marriage to his high school sweetheart Lynne Cheney, 47, head of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Cheney, 48, even passes the all-important Sam Nunn character test. The Georgia Democrat hailed him as "a man of honor and integrity...
...procedure remains an expensive long shot, which fails perhaps 85% of the time. This week the House Subcommittee on Regulation, Business Opportunities and Energy will hold hearings to investigate growing complaints that many heavily promoted IVF clinics misrepresent their success rates. The panel's chairman, Oregon Democrat Ron Wyden, intends to reveal an industry survey showing that the performance of IVF practitioners varies enormously. According to Wyden, half the IVF clinics have yet to achieve a birth, though they may charge up to $7,000 for each fertilization attempt. Says the Congressman: "With millions of couples, many of them desperate...