Word: effect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...overall tax cut of $16.3 billion. The message will not entirely appease the middle class, however, since the cut translates into an average of only about $163 per year in savings for the individual taxpayer. Because of the large increase in Social Security taxes scheduled to go into effect in January, many members of the middle class will be paying more to the Government than before, even with...
While Carter may have helped his standing in North Carolina, there was some question about what effect all this will have in the rest of the country, where three quarters of the people do not smoke, and where 80% of the 53 million cigarette smokers, says HEW, would like to quit if they could. Back in Washington, Nonsmoker Carter has put his Administration firmly behind preventive medicine. The evidence amassed by HEW stands like an Everest on this health horizon. Cigarette smoking is considered by federal authorities the biggest acquired cause of poor health. They claim that 320,000 people...
...from pitching. "Throwing one's arm out" is no mere figure of speech. Dr. James Purdy, emergency-room physician at Northside Hospital in Atlanta, recalls one softball player who threw the ball so hard he shattered his upper arm bone. A hard-hit ball can have a shattering effect of its own when hand-eye coordination fails...
...plant, were charged with criminal tresspass, which can bring a penalty of up to one year in prison and/or a $1000 fine. They may also be charged with contempt of court, since a court injunction against trespassing on PSC land, which was issued in June, is still in effect...
...never dreamed of getting into politics until I did it, but I took to it like a duck to water. There was a zoning case in my neighborhood and I was trying to be a writer. It was the first time I realized that words could have an effect...