Word: higher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...press conference last week, Carter cited other bills as likely candidates for a veto. The most important is the $16.3 billion tax cut passed by the House earlier this month. If that reduction is increased by the Senate, or if higher income groups get most of the benefits, Carter said, he would "have no hesitancy about vetoing it." White House aides are now engaged in quiet negotiations with Senate Finance Committee Chairman Russell Long, who favors a bigger tax cut. As one Administration official says: "I don't think anyone can tell you what Russell will...
...Delaware's Republican Senator William V. Roth sees it, there are three distinct classes in the U.S. where higher education is concerned: l)"the very rich," who can afford the best colleges; 2)"the very poor," who can meet skyrocketing costs only because of various aid programs; and 3)"the very taxed," those middle-income Americans who have no easy way to pay their kids' bloated bills. Inflation has kicked their incomes not only into higher tax brackets but also out of the grant and loan market. At the same time, their after-tax income is barely keeping...
...alarming book, The Zapping of America, Paul Brodeur said that Soviet scientists found during studies in the 1950s that workers exposed to microwave radiation were complaining of headaches, eye pain, weariness, memory loss, and a host of other ailments. As a result, while bombarding the U.S. embassy with higher levels, the Soviets set a microwave limit for their own people of no more than ten microwatts per sq. cm, a thousand times less than the U.S. standard...
...billion over last year, to $4.2 billion. The Soviet Union is the No. 2 gold miner, and last year its Wozchod Bank sold 401 tons at an average price of $150 an ounce, earning a tidy $2 billion. This year Wozchod expects to sell another 400 tons, at much higher profit...
...were eagerly rolling dice at Atlantic City's new casinos. Although none of them knew it, at that same moment Texaco oilmen at sea on a drilling rig, which was moored in 432 ft. of water near the edge of the U.S. continental shelf, were playing for much higher stakes. Aboard the Ocean Victory, they nervously awaited the results of a test detonation 14,000 ft. below the ocean floor that could tell the outcome of their $30 million search for oil and natural...