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Nevertheless, the two largest groups of student terrorists are the Communists and the Fidelista MIR (Movement of the Revolutionary Left). Though indistinguishable from the Communists in action, according to Gonzalez, the MIR derives much of its strength from those, especially from rural areas, who do not want to incur the stigma attaching to Communism--"I wouldn't want my mother to hear I was a Communist...
...resulting in inadequate federal revenues. "In short, it is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high today and tax revenues are too low -and the soundest way to raise revenues in the long run is to cut rates . . . The purpose of cutting taxes now is not to incur a budget deficit but to achieve the more prosperous, expanding economy that can bring a budget surplus...
...Probation: a more serious warning. Students on probation must attend all their classes and cannot participate in extracurricular activities. Among the misdeeds that incur a sentence of probation are neglect the Physical Training Requirement or failure to receive at least three C's and a D in any one term. In general, probation does not last more than one term -- after this time the student is either restored to good standing or forced to take a leave of absence. (Harvard has a milder form of the same which it uses with uppercase Called "House Warning," of probation does not exclude...
...peculiar behavior of the TV networks in granting Mr. Kennedy free time to plug the King-Anderson medical care bill, and their shoddy treatment of the A.M.A. when it attempted to obtain equal time for a rebuttal, make one wonder if the networks are afraid to incur the wrath of the President for fear of being treated like the steel companies...
...several years, South Shore cities through which the MTA would pass have successfully opposed legislative action to extend the system. Quincy, Braintree, and other towns prefer no rail service at all to paying the share of the MTA's annual operating deficit that all cities on the line incur...