Word: favority
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...public is widely divided on what Carter should do to improve the economy: 42% want the Government to create jobs by putting money into projects such as railroads, schools and housing, but 48% favor cutting back on present spending and trying to balance the budget. At the same time, people hope the Government will somehow increase public services. Three-fifths would like Congress to enact national health insurance and a full-employment bill in which the Government would guarantee a job to everyone who wants to work...
...badly needed: sluggish business investment is probably the biggest drag on the economy, and while the rise in the credit would be small, it has become a symbolic issue in the eyes of many executives. But the House, in a misguided effort to spur employment, turned it down in favor of a "jobs tax credit": 40% of a newly hired worker's wages, up to a maximum of $1,680. The House put a ceiling of $40,000 on the credit any one employer could take, thus effectively limiting the benefits to small businesses, which...
...been clattering about the show before it opened Wednesday knew much about it. Not even the city councilors, who wanted to go on record as having opposed the granting of a license, had much idea what they were trying to ban. Mavor Alfred E. Vellucci (who was actually in favor of granting the theater a license to show "Calcutta") kept referring to the mystery show as a movie. Councilor Leonard Russell kept denouncing the "Combat Zone type of show" as one that would "threaten the lives of hundreds of children...
...said he is confident that the NLRB ruling in favor of the union will be upheld, but it will be a "long, bitter and expensive fight...
...senior held the Tritons scoreless in the third quarter, corralling six saves. He allowed two scores in the final stanza before retiring to the bench in favor of attackman-turned-netminder Dailey Kennedy...