Word: interest
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Second Enemy. NATO claims that 9,000,000 Americans have signed its petitions, and 21 Congressmen have drafted bills to ban subscription TV. So far, the proposed legislation has not stirred much interest on Capitol Hill. NATO's other resort is a suit in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia circuit contesting the authority of any FCC licensing...
Idiom of Wood. Nikita Khrushchev had had little interest in restoring old monuments, declaring that the money would be better spent on workers' flats. After his fall from power in 1965, a turnabout in policy occurred and the government began an intensive restoration drive. It formed the Society for the Protection of Historical and Artistic Monuments, an organization that today claims 2,000,000 members, to provide volunteers for restoration work. Last year the Ministry of Culture spent an estimated 5,000,000 rubles (about $5,500,000) on restoration...
...other hand, he urged the Senate to relax the House provisions aimed at closing four other tax loopholes. For presently tax-exempt foundations, he proposed a 2% tax on investment income instead of the House's 7½% rate. He asked that the interest paid on municipal and state bonds remain taxfree; local officials insist that it would be extremely difficult to sell their bonds under House provisions that would make them partially taxable. Responding to protests by charitable institutions, Kennedy urged the Senate to drop House restrictions on the deductibility of certain donations...
...present 30% and pay off the remainder in 18 months instead of 21. For house hold appliances and furniture, the down payment will be 40%-up from 30%-and the term will be shortened from 18 months to 15. To encourage consumers to divert their money into savings accounts, interest rates will be raised from...
Weyman's chronicle and the handful of other tales included in the book are all what journalism schools used to call human interest stories. In telling about people, however, St. Clair McKelway scrupulously avoids confusing the knack of self-expression with the act of self-intrusion. He might be called an old-fashioned journalist-if he did not so often manage to sound so refreshingly...