Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...detail, the principle is the same: everyone is entitled to a basic income as a matter of right. Under Tobin's plan, the most carefully thought out, no family of four would receive less than $2,600 a year. As income rises, the payment from the Government would drop, until a breakeven point of $5,200 is reached. At $6,144, the family would start paying full taxes (see chart, following page). According to Tobin's arithmetic, no family would ever be better or as well off not working-as is often the case with today...
...score of organizations-not least of which is the Federal Government's Office of Economic Opportunity-have encouraged the poor to drop whatever inhibitions they had about welfare. Sharp-eyed lawyers and organizers are discovering hidden benefits that scarcely anyone knew existed. Welfare officials, in turn, are being pressured to grant new benefits, such as money for telephones and Christmas gifts, so that life on welfare can more closely approximate life in the rest of America. Yet the welfare militants have more in mind than just getting a little more. By stretching the current system to its farthest limit...
...most other faculty members in their respective fields. My point here is not whether they are justified. If the University and similar institutions feel otherwise, should they not attempt to have the law, regulations, and agreements changed through normal processes of legislation, negotiation and advocacy, rather than simply to "drop-out" or "cop-out" of a long-established, badly-needed federal program with which they may disagree in whole or in part...
...more corpses than there are at the end of Hamlet, looking for an imaginary exit. Here is de Ghelderode's metaphor for modern existence: we are all dying in a trap without even knowing why. Miss Ebenstein's robust direction and Gordon Ferguson's fine acting wring every possible drop of pain from the jolting final scene...
...velocity of 24,765 m.p.h., the 11,700-lb. command module-all that will remain of the 3,100-ton vehicle that left Cape Kennedy-will glide downward along a curving 1,300-mile path, deploy its main parachutes at 10,000 ft., and drop gently into the Pacific. Elapsed time for the great lunar adventure: six days...