Word: forme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With salvos like these, the candidates last week battled over the federal income tax. Ford was talking mostly about tax cuts, but Carter was urging re form to make the system more fair, a subject about which politicians usually talk a lot but do as little as possible...
First, powerful lobbies attempt to thwart all efforts to get major tax reform through Congress, even though nearly everyone agrees that today's system bad ly needs a total overhaul. Second, re form makes taxpayers themselves uneasy because they are unwilling to give up the certainty of a deduction in return for only a promise to lower tax rates. In Federal Tax Reform: The Impossible Dream ?, Tax Experts George F. Break and Joseph A. Pechman observed: "Circumventing this dilemma is a task worthy of a Solomon...
...raises profound questions about the future of South Africa, where unrest in the black urban townships has continued sporadically since June; last week racial violence spread to downtown Johannesburg for the first time. In Rhodesia, the immediate question is whether the rival black factions can get together to help form a government. At present there are at least six candidates for the leadership of an independent Zimbabwe, as African nationalists have long called Rhodesia. Among these, the best known-and probably the most moderate-is Joshua Nkomo, 59, who negotiated inconclusively with Smith for two months earlier this year. Another...
...looks like an overbuilt bicycle, sounds like an impatient teakettle and, in fact, combines pedal power with petroleum push. Called a moped (from motor-plus-pedals), the motorized bike is catching on rapidly in the U.S. as a practical, inexpensive form of short-haul transportation for commuters, students, the elderly and fresh-air lovers out for a spin-not to mention the suburban housewife who is reluctant to drive a gas-guzzling, nine-passenger station wagon two miles for a can of tuna. Since it whirs along on a two-stroke minimotor with less horsepower than a power mower, goes...
...passed by Congress in its present form, the bill would squelch several annoying bits of static on the phone companies' line. One of them: the so-called specialized common carriers-non-Bell communications companies that grew out of a 1959 FCC decision opening a new spectrum of microwave channels to private business. Currently, there are three such carriers in operation-the biggest is MCI Telecommunications Corp., based in Washington, D.C.-that run microwave transmission facilities for Government and business clients in competition with AT&T. The bill, by ruling out "wasteful or unnecessary duplication of communications lines," would apparently...