Word: jacke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vote was also a setback for New York Republican Representative Jack Kemp, 43, who has staked his promising career on the issue of a sweeping 33% reduction in federal personal income taxes over a three-year period. Kemp argues that the cut would be such a spur to the nation's production that the Federal Government would soon recover much of the revenues lost by the cut -a prospect that critics sneeringly refer to as a "free lunch." Under Kemp's prodding, many G.O.P. candidates are seizing on the issue; this fall the Republican National Committee plans...
...have not been lost on the OPEC nations. Although they agreed to continue the cost of crude oil at its present $13 per bbl. when they last met in June, there have been signals from OPEC oil ministers that they may meet again as early as next month to jack up the price about 5%. To the present $42 billion cost of the U.S.'s annual oil imports, that would add $2 billion...
...Jack Ratliff El Paso...
Since Borman outraged U.S. planemakers by buying a European plane, Boeing has led a campaign in Washington against what Treasurer Jack Pierce calls "predatory financing." Indeed, Borman got a good deal, which includes a $250 million loan guaranteed by European government agencies. Somewhat reluctantly, the U.S. Export-Import Bank has agreed to try to meet the European terms by making more of low-interest loans available to foreign buyers of U.S. aircraft...
...When all that attention started," Springsteen, now 28, reflects, "I was out in L.A. and Jack Nicholson came to a show. I asked him how he handled the attention. He said, for him, it was a long time coming and he was mostly glad to have it. I didn't see it quite that way. I bundled it all together into one general experience and labeled it 'bad.' I felt control over my life and career was slipping away and that all the attention was . . . like . . . an obstacle. But that was a mistake. After a while I realized, well, time...