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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proposed budget cuts and ever-higher interest rates come to pass. It is more than a little ironic that the people who suffer the most from high inflation--the poor, the jobless, the sick and the elderly--would bear the burden of a shrinking federal budget. With interest-group politics at its zenith, the weak and disorganized would, as usual, lose out. According to a Prentice-Hall estimate, for example, the recently passed changes in corporate taxation (from a normal and surtax basis to a graduated tax), will reduce those taxes by about five billion dollars--enough...
...four months reflecting on their own involvement in politics, as well as conducting their teaching and writing work. "This place will give me a chance to relax and put into perspective my work at Common Cause," said Bruce Adams, director of Issue Development at Common Cause, a "clean government" group based in Washington...
Robert L. Kuttner, former director of the National Commission on Neighborhoods and a free-lance journalist, plans to use his study group on the tax revolt as a sounding board on his theories about progressives...
Gunter Fuhrmann, West German deputy consul, responded to the group's arguments by presenting opposing views, but he declined to take a clear stand on the issue of repeal, according to the HJLSA...
...Harvard, directing a $66,000 grant project given to the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research by the Luce Foundation. The grant project has two parts: it will fund Stanley's research on a new book about the future of Philippine-American relations, and it will finance a study group of Philippine scholars to discuss this topic. Stanley will lead the study group, which will meet at Harvard over the course of a year...