Word: either
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...power and perks and had no intention of stepping down. The mobsters, who had been flourishing during Fitzsimmons' genially relaxed reign-joining various regional Teamster bosses in lucrative loan sharking, pension-fund frauds, sweetheart contracts, management-union kickback deals and other rackets-did not want Hoffa back either. They feared that he would centralize power again and deal out a few racketeers who had rubbed him the wrong...
...final possibility is TIP (for Tax-based Incomes Policy). This is a long discussed plan either to impose penalty taxes on employers who raise wages too much, or to give tax cuts to workers and companies who keep wage and price boosts moderate (see box). Carter may introduce a TIP plan in the next session of Congress...
...last year Arthur Okun, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists, proposed a variant: cuts in income taxes for both companies and their workers if wage increases are held to 6% and price boosts to 4%. Proxmire's bill would authorize the Administration to try either type...
...newsbreaks went, everyone might just as well have stayed at home. One reason for the Camp David meetings was President Carter's hope of liberating the participants from the constraints of their own past rhetoric. That meant keeping them away from the press too. To prevent either side from stealing the show, top aides accompanying Sadat and-Begin agreed to refrain from leaking to the press until the talks ended...
...riches pay off only in loneliness and boredom. To Malick, all these people are victims of their innocent faith in a warped American dream. Their tragedy is that they blame themselves, rather than their false ideals, for the misery of their lives. Though none of the characters can find either happiness or justice, God ultimately passes his own judgment on their plight. Days of Heaven climaxes with a cleansing, Old Testament plague of locusts-a nighttime Apocalypse so damning that it makes the similar finale of Nathanael West's The Day of the Locust seem tame by comparison...