Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have misrepresented an important McGovern proposal. McGovern did not suggest that "anyone making over $50,000 a year-earned or unearned-would have to pay 75% of the excess in taxes, no matter what tax shelters might exist...
What McGovern is proposing is that everyone pay some income tax. One formulation would apply to those with total incomes in excess of $50,000, regardless of the source. "The entire income of any person in this range would be subject to payment of taxes at a rate of 75% of the current statutory rates at the rate they would have to pay if there were no loopholes...
Perhaps 60% of the Rose Bowl merchants operate a high-class shop somewhere else and use the Pasadena sale to unload excess stock. One designer, Frances Bi-coll, offered second-graded bikinis for $6 that if perfect might retail at I. Magnin for $25. She explained, "We can sell them here for below wholesale and at least break even, instead of holding them over into next year." Mrs. J.F. Whitecotton, who until last month worked as an assistant in a school cafeteria, peddles different wares...
...BOAC and Air France have not signed contracts to buy, despite intense pressure from their governments. The two airlines are holding out for the governments to offer low-interest, long-term loans and guarantees against operating losses. The officers of most lines, still struggling with the high costs and excess capacity of the jumbo jets, wish that the Concorde would just go away...
...wavers for a while between Benoit and the family of the deceased boy, and as a consequence the film becomes slightly un raveled before it reaches its climax. The movie is also overrich in incidents, since Jutra and Perron are too anxious to cram everything in. There is an excess of vivid but extraneous vignettes of village life, like the Christmas sleigh ride of the dour mineowner distributing stockings full of cheap candy to the poor children along the main street. Yet in spite of its unfixed perspective, My Uncle Antoine is indelible, the best chronicle of a coming...