Word: higher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President instructed his staff last week to drum up support for his tax-reform bill. But since the program entails higher taxes for many, it has a small constituency indeed. And there is already a revolt brewing over the explosive increase in Social Security taxes that was passed by Congress last December. It almost seems as if Carter is oblivious to the is sue. Congress, keenly feeling the wrath of its constituents, is not. Disregarding the President, the House Ways and Means Committee began voting down Carter's tax-reform proposals last week. "The trouble with Carter," said Barber...
...knows? As the rally demonstrates, market psychology can mercurially shift. Since the end of 1976, when the Dow closed at 1004, investors' minds had been dominated by fears of inflation, higher interest rates and possible recession, despondency about the dollar and a widespread feeling that the Carter Administration was floundering in economic policy. By last Feb. 28, the Dow had sunk 26%, to 742, at which point stock prices had discounted all the bad news that could reasonably be expected, plus all that could unreasonably be feared, plus a bit more for good measure...
...enter from several directions at different speeds, flying various curved approaches toward separate electronic "gates." MLS will thus permit more efficient use of runways by different types of aircraft and will give controllers greater choice in routing planes away from built-up areas. And because it operates at higher frequency, it is less influenced by buildings and local geography...
Meanwhile, despite the focusing of political debate on the cultural question, the issue of the economic cost of independence will in all likelihood continue to be decisive. All the polls taken since the P.Q.'s election demonstrate a far higher degree of support for formal independence with close Canadian economic ties and few economic risks, than for a complete break with Canada...
...Government has candidly acknowledged the crisis. Not long after his election, President Carter met with HEW Secretary Joseph Califano and a group of college presidents to discuss problems of higher education. In the fall, HEW launched Operation Common Sense, a comprehensive effort to review, simplify and recodify regulations. Last week, in a further effort to bring a number of widely scattered programs under one roof, Carter proposed the establishment of a new Department of Education...