Word: equality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...federal tax of 5? per gal.; the tax could rise to a maximum of 50? by 1989. Any money raised by the tax-and it could eventually be as much as $60 billion a year -would be returned, said the White House, not just to drivers but in equal amounts "to every man, woman and child in America" through income tax credits and direct payments to people who do not owe taxes. The credits and payments would function as a kind of income redistribution device. Lower-income people, who usually do not drive as much as those in higher brackets...
...products from our plants overseas, but they are not interested. They want it from the U.S. directly." The reason is partly economic: freight rates are lower and delivery dates more precise from the U.S. But the Cubans also want a legitimate trading relationship and acceptance as an equal partner...
Earlier this month a review committee reported that in the past two years the Colleges have merged admissions staffs and implemented equal access admissions with little difficulty...
...complex genetic traits for altruism and aggression in man." Instead, he states, "We are saying nothing about the question of whether learning, experience, or environmental influences enter into the development of the behavior. All you have to concede that it is possible for a single gene, other things being equal and lots of other genes and environmental factors being present, to make a body more likely to save somebody than its allele would...
...lost, the phantom issues, not the realities, carried the day. Complains the chairwoman of Georgia's ERA Council, Dotsie Holmes: "The legislators are all too willing to succumb to the hysterical group of women who go down to the statehouse screaming, 'Please don't make me equal!' " So successful was this kind of opposition in Florida that even last-minute telephone calls by Betty Ford, Vice President Walter Mondale, and Rosalynn and Jimmy Carter were of no avail. Florida's former Miss America, Anita Bryant, took time out from her campaign against gays to oppose...