Word: feds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ideology of Fed-Upness" [June 27] should sound a warning to our political leaders, especially those who can influence U.S. policy on taxation. Continuing the surtax and increasing sales taxes is very like the medical practice of bleeding the sick in George Washington's day. When our body politic is sick from war and urban blight, we bleed the middle-class that is its life force, while privilege and "the caissons go rolling along...
...moralists and esthetes can only bemoan the vulgarity of Vegas. But the distant future may hold some hope. Las Vegas currently consumes 19 billion gallons of water a year, most of it pumped through wells from a water table that is fed only 3.72 in. of rain every twelve months. As a result, depletion of the water table over the past 20 years has caused the whole town to sink 3 ft. At that rate the earth may swallow up the city of Las Vegas-in a million years...
...Medicare marked its third birth day last week, its growing pains were all too evident. Both Medicare, the fed erally financed program that pays hos pital bills for all Americans over 65, and the related Medicaid, which is financed jointly by Washington and the states and assists the poor of all ages, have been plagued by huge cost underestimates, administrative tangles and messy scandals. Now doctors who treat patients under both programs will have to contend with the Internal Revenue Service and Senate investigators...
Lately the status quo has been increasingly challenged by the courts, by citizens' groups such as the N.C.C.B. and at times even by the vacillating Fed eral Communications Commission. In one of his final decisions as an appeals court judge, Chief Justice Warren E. Burger set forth a new doctrine that makes the continued existence of TV stations contingent on performance...
...Japanese have contracted for 146 million tons, worth $1.2 billion, over the next 15 years. European steel mills have agreed to buy 1.5 million tons by 1989, while 70 million tons will go to Australian mills. Australian steelmen are also considering building enormous integrated mills that would be fed by Mount Newman and other western iron mines. When that happens, proud Australia will indeed be master of her vast iron reserves...