Word: favor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...public is also likely to favor the committee's action. It is designed to make it impossible for wealthy individuals to avoid federal income taxes entirely through tax-free investments or special loss and deduction allowances. Heeding widespread taxpayer resentment over the disclosure that 155 persons with incomes over $200,000 paid no taxes at all in 1967, Ways and Means approved a "minimum tax" plan that would require everyone to pay taxes on at least half his income. Combining proposals put forward by both the Johnson and Nixon administrations, the plan modifies the exemptions on capital gains...
...autism. Autistic* children live in a lonely and unbreakable trance. As babies, they seldom look into their mothers' eyes, they never reach out to be picked up and cuddled. By the age of about two, they have withdrawn completely from the world, ignoring the people around them in favor of the Teddy bears or dolls to which they become fanatically attached. The smallest departure in routine can send them into screaming paroxysms; some must wear tiny football helmets to prevent them from smashing their heads against a wall...
...have focused on com munity organization projects, propagandizing and planning. In Boston, 200 radicals are attending a nine-week "Movement School," at which they are to develop a "critique of American society" and plan future tactics. Members of the Peace and Freedom Party are canvassing door to door in favor of rent control in Cambridge, where Harvard's expansion has contributed to a severe housing shortage. Other students are engaged in draft-resistance counseling, mobilizing high school youths and running newspaper and film projects...
...drivers and helpers voted Tuesday almost unanimously in favor of rep- resentation by Teamsters Local 82. They went back to work, allowing the union to negotiate their specific grievances with Morgan Memories...
Forbidden Fruit. Psychiatrists and other physicians who favor a different approach consider attempts to enforce prohibition of marijuana to be self-defeating; such efforts, they argue, give the drug the appeal of forbidden fruit. They believe, moreover, that the imposition of penalties for possession, or even use, makes criminals of ordinary young people who are carried away by a simple urge for experimentation. These are moderate reformers, who do not advocate abolition of laws against importation or sale of marijuana, and who offer no defense whatever for LSD or other "hard" drugs...