Word: gaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...issue was clear-cut: whether and when, after a century of colonial status, the tiny sultanate of Brunei should gain full independence. The British were understandably defensive. The Bruneians were altogether adamant. The strange thing about the situation, however, as the two sides met for discussions in London, was that this time it was the British who proposed to cast off their remaining colonial ties. On the other hand, Brunei's Sandhurst-educated sultan, Sir Muda Hassanal Bolkiah Mu'izzaddin Waddaulah, 32, who led a retinue of 18 to the negotiating table in Whitehall, sought to hang...
...couple in their late 50s earning $15,000 a year rent an apartment and sell their 20-year-old home, realizing a capital gain of $34,000. Now, they would pay a tax of $7,709 on their total income. That would drop to $6,659 under Steiger's plan, a saving...
...family that earns $25,000 a year sells its stock in a dry-cleaning business for a $55,000 capital gain. At present the family's total tax would be $17,655; with Steiger, it would drop to $15,030, a saving...
After a 1975 suicide at Little Greystone, the innovative San Francisco public television station KQED sent a reporter and a cameraman to film conditions there. County Sheriff Thomas Houchins turned them away. But after the station sued to gain entry, Houchins announced a program of regular monthly prison tours open to the public, including reporters. There were a few catches: no cameras, no tape recorders, no interviews with inmates and no access at all to the Little Greystone building. The station pressed its suit, and a federal district court ordered the sheriff to grant the press wider access...
...land of Israel. The mass-circulation daily Ha'aretz noted: "If even members of the Israeli Cabinet voted against the reply, one can hardly expect the Israeli answer to be welcomed enthusiastically in Cairo." Ma'ariv, the afternoon daily, was equally foreboding. "It may be possible to gain a few weeks' breathing space," said the paper. "But it will not be possible to ease American pressure or improve relations with Washington, which are at a distressingly low level." On the same theme, Post Columnist Meir Mer-hav predicted: "There will be a gradual disengagement, not between...