Word: jannings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...income tax overhaul in more than 40 years. Overwhelmingly approved late last month by the House (292 to 136) and the Senate (74 to 23), the bill is expected to be signed into law by President Reagan within the next week or so. Scheduled to go into effect on Jan. 1, the measure is designed to create a more equitable tax code by phasing out dozens of cherished breaks and shelters. Result: its passage has touched off a scramble by taxpayers to squeeze as many write-offs as possible through the loopholes that will expire or become less attractive after...
...Jan. 31: INTERNSHIP PROGRAM ON HOLD...
...follow the U.S.S.R. in halting all nuclear testing, said the Soviet leader, the agreement would be "some kind of prologue" to eliminating nuclear weapons. In a televised speech, Gorbachev announced that his moratorium on underground testing, which began in August 1985, would be extended for a fourth time, to Jan. 1, 1987. He even suggested that a comprehensive test-ban treaty might be signed at a summit meeting with President Reagan this year...
...believe that really happened, you, like thousands of other gullible Americans, have been taken in by one more of the hundreds of urban legends that regularly make their spoken way across the country. "The Mexican Pet" is nevertheless, the authentic title story of Jan Harold Brunvand's third collection of whoppers. Together, these new wives' tales merge as an American picaresque, a compilation of myths that keep the telephone wires humming and cocktail parties doubly fueled...
...growing backlog of unlaunched domestic satellites and increased competition from foreign space agencies, NASA finally received two pieces of good news last week. President Reagan announced Friday that he is ordering construction of a fourth orbiter to replace the shuttle Challenger, which carried seven astronauts to their death on Jan. 28. The new orbiter should be completed by 1991, its estimated $2.8 billion price to be paid in part out of money the space agency will save during the present launch hiatus. With a reduced launch schedule, the President said, the shuttle fleet will no longer carry commercial payloads, giving...