Word: less
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spot," reports Stephen Shannon, head of the National Association of Greeting Card Publishers. The topical messages are not always gentle. For $1, the Black Panthers offer a selection of twelve different greetings. One card portrays a pig-faced white Santa emerging from a chimney to confront a less-than-loving reception committee: a black father toting a carbine and his little boy preparing to bash St. Nick with a small Christmas tree. The trend is not only American. In Beirut the anti-Israel terrorists of Al-Fatah are selling cards with a drawing of innocent-looking Arab youths...
...bills, it was plain that the lawmakers' priorities differed considerably from Nixon's. In three areas-agriculture, public works and transportation-they added a total of $893 million to the funds originally sought by the President. In the other ten, they appropriated a total of $7.7 billion less than requested by Nixon...
Almost the entire cut came in the form of a $5.6 billion amputation from the defense request. It first appeared that Nixon might have to settle for $1.1 billion less than he asked for in foreign aid. But late Saturday, even this appeared in doubt as the Senate rejected the $1.8 billion foreign aid money bill. The Senate action was an angry response to the House, which insisted upon granting $54.5 million to Nationalist China for jet fighters and $50 million in military aid to South Korea...
Despite Nixon's attempt to blame Capitol Hill for encouraging inflation, Democratic Congressmen argue that they will ultimately appropriate at least $6.8 billion less than the $143 billion requested by the President. That figure is misleading, since it does not take into account such continuing commitments as the increase in Social Security benefits. But the fact remains that so far Congress has trimmed actual appropriations by a substantial sum. Accordingly, Wisconsin's Democratic Senator William Proxmire concluded that the White House was guilty of a "snow job" when it complained that "Congress is spending money like a drunken...
...three-step rise in the standard tax deduction-now $1,000 or 10% of income, whichever is less-to $2,000 or 15% by 1973. The feature is designed to aid lower-and middle-income groups. > An additional $1,100 income exemption for those with annual earnings of $3,300 or less, aimed at removing 5,500,000 poor families from the tax rolls. > A new schedule for single taxpayers designed to narrow the gap between what they pay and what is paid by married people with the same income. Single people now pay up to 40% more...