Word: forme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sure how [the administration's] Middle Income Assistance Act will look in its final form, but at this point it seems to benefit more people and distinguish real need better than the tax credit plan," Lyman said...
...costs and the continuing economic sanctions, faced a whopping deficit of $425 million in the next fiscal year. As a result, Rhodesia's 80,000 taxpayers?almost all of them whites?will be required to contribute an extra 12½% of their incomes to the government in the form of war loans that are theoretically repayable in three years?well after the date of independence...
Soares had been walking a political tightrope since last December. At that time, the National Assembly voted no confidence in Soares' moderate leftist policies. The Premier survived, but only because the conservative-leaning Center Democratic Party (C.D.S.) agreed to form a governing coalition with the Socialists, who held 102 seats in the 263-member assembly. Last month the three C.D.S. Cabinet ministers threatened to resign unless Soares got rid of Agriculture Minister Luis Saias, a former Communist who the Centrists maintained was dragging his feet in restoring to its original owners lands seized by peasants during the turbulent 1974 revolution...
...Turkey to dump dollars for the ECU currencies, thus bringing more downward pressure on the dollar. Economist Robert Triffin, a U.S. monetary expert who has long championed a European currency, believes that it would help rather than hurt the dollar's stability in the long run. The final form of the common European money system remains uncertain, but, said Federal Reserve Board Governor Henry Wallich, "something will emerge because there is a big push behind it, and a lot of political capital has been invested...
...vague sense, Impact Aid is a form of rent paid by the Government in lieu of local taxes on federal buildings and property. But Carter Administration officials, who are trying to cut the fat out of a half-trillion-dollar budget, point out that often the money from Impact Aid goes to communities whether they need it or not. Some of the biggest beneficiaries are among the wealthiest school districts in the nation. Montgomery County, Md., has a per capita income about 50% above the national average, thanks largely to the battalions of Washington bureaucrats who live there. Even though...