Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dominant figure, most of the time, will be Taft-working overtime in his quiet office, slouching in his seat on the Senate floor, jumping to his feet to argue in his flat voice, grinning like a Cheshire cat even when he is wrathful, disgorging facts, facts and more facts from his fat briefcase...
...twelve had almost everything in common except a name; they all worshiped Picasso's flat abstractions and muscular distortions of reality, and the clear, hot & cold colors of Matisse. Tracked down to their neat, freezing studios, they proved to share something more-a surprising lack of Left Bank bohemianism, and a fervor in the cause of modern art. Their fervor was that of disciples; Parisians, assessing their evident talent, anxiously waited for them to strike out on their own before handing over the keys of the city to them...
Early in the Congressional campaigns of last Autumn, a Republican from Minnesota promised that his party, if elected, would proceed to reduce income taxes by a flat twenty percent "across the board." A fellow partisan from Massachusetts joined the chorus, pledging his own efforts to a slash of one-fifth. Today, four months later, Harold Knutson of Minnesota is Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, and Joe martin of Massachusetts wields the Speaker's gavel. The tax-reduction will stands at the head of the legislative calendar as House Resolution Number...
...particular mystery attaches to these figures. Any flat percentage cut in a progressive tax must, by simple arithmetic, lead to a regressive result in terms of income. Such anomalous consequences, utterly contradictory to the general principle of progressive taxes, can be avoided either by reducing the tax burden via higher exemptions, or by providing for larger percentage tax reductions in the lower brackets. The former course has been advocated by Representative Engel, who urged that exemptions be doubled. As yet, no Congressman has argued for a graduated cut, but its political advantages are so obvious and its economic implications...
...door had prepared almost no one for an account of activities which more resembled wholesale looting than casual stealing. In view of the individual student's ignorance of the whole picture, those University authorities who recognized that this was a persistent, going business, could have made a flat official statement of the seriousness of the situation with the suggestion that the serial numbers and labels of all watches, cameras, typewriters and clothing be noted down, locked doors or no. There could have followed a strong recommendation that subsequent thefts be reported not only to the Yard cops...