Word: favority
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week Carter began an all-out effort at persuading the House to lift the ban later this month. Meeting at the White House with 14 Congressmen who favor repeal, Carter said that the embargo had "driven a wedge" between the U.S. and Turkey and "shaken very seriously the cohesiveness of the NATO alliance" (see WORLD). In a strategy memo distributed to the Congressmen, the Administration outlined a lobbying effort every bit as intensive as the one that preceded Senate approval of the Middle East plane deal...
...flourishing this spring. Like pears and firs, this crop is a moneymaker, yielding an estimated $70 million a year. But, unlike the other natural products of the valley, it is illegal. The plant is sinsemillas (Spanish for seedless), a highly cultivated strain of marijuana that has recently found favor with U.S. pot smokers. It thrives in the fertile soil and relaxed legal atmosphere of southern Oregon...
There is no slick stuff about Seger, not on the records and not in concert. His brown hair flows over the collars of modified Elizabethan shirts, stage gear long out of favor. The music has no labyrinthine lyrics or arcane chord changes. Seger still opens his show with Tina Turner's good-humored, hard-rocker Nutbush City Limits, and the song sets the tone for what follows: plain good times...
...egalitarian tax reform. The basic rule on capital gains has long been, and still is, that only half of them are subject to income tax; until 1969, the maximum tax on capital gains was 25%. But beginning in 1970, liberals who considered that tax rate to be an undue favor to the rich raised the maximum tax on the biggest capital gams reaped by individuals to 49.1%,* by far the highest rate in the industrial world; the top rate on corporate capital gains is 30%. Steiger would set the clock back to 1969?and a 25% maximum tax for individuals...
Creating yet another inherently powerless student voice is not the answer; Harvard hears only what it wants to hear. The centralization of impotence does not justify a vote in its favor. What is needed is an organization prepared and empowered to deal with Harvard on its own terms...