Word: exempt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prepared by for mer White House Aide John Caulfield, complained that Republican appointees at IRS "lack guts and effort" and "appear afraid and unwilling to do anything that could be politically helpful." As a result, the document said, the White House staff was unable to crack down on tax-exempt foundations that "feed left-wing political causes," to obtain information from the IRS "regarding our political enemies," to "stimulate audits of persons who should be audited" or to place Nixon supporters in the IRS bureaucracy. A third memo, from Security Specialist Tom Charles Huston to Haldeman, suggested IRS audits...
...reminiscent of dumping milk and killing little pigs during the Depression, U.S. chicken farmers and cattle raisers last week threw down the first major challenge to the Administration's price freeze. Claiming that they cannot make a profit at present prices as long as the cost of freeze-exempt feed grains keeps rising, poultry farmers cut their losses by systematically gassing, drowning and suffocating a million baby chicks and selling their egg-laying hens. Other farmers sent pregnant sows to the slaughterhouse and dispatched old milk cows to hamburger heaven. These tactics raise a two-headed specter of shortages...
Though the prices that farmers charge are exempt from the freeze, they are being held in check because wholesalers and retailers refuse to pay more for supplies since their own prices are frozen. Thus farmers are killing chickens and taking other steps to reduce costs. Dairy farmers are being increasingly rigorous in picking out for slaughter all but the best milkers in their herds...
...lack of job descriptions for the various categories of administrative employees exempt from the overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act, and for the faculty...
...second ban on price-though not wage-increases for up to 60 days, again with farm-level prices for food products exempt but not those beyond the farm level. Companies that posted big price increases during Phase III will be audited, and special attention given to retail food and gas prices. COLC is to enforce the freeze and plan Phase IV, which the President promises will have "tighter standards" than its predecessor...