Word: level
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Roll back rents in Harvard University-owned buildings to the level of January...
...size of the grad school--Wolff proposed trimming the total enrollment by at least 20 per cent within five years, and cutting back the enrollment in most departments to its lowest level in the period between...
Just who would be assigned to make the initial contacts with the N.L.F. remained to be seen. Palace sources said that the Vice President and chief South Vietnamese negotiator at the Paris conference, Nguyen Cao Ky, would not take part in the meetings until a lower-level delegate had made the first soundings. If these turned out to be fruitful, Ky would take over. The agenda? Ky's advisers said he was planning to discuss the gamut of problems, from the war itself to the issues of withdrawal and a ceasefire. Any reports that some concrete concessions were...
This unlikely unanimity of view was produced by the prospect of imminent Big Four talks at the U.N. on peace in the Middle East. Washington, encouraged by a series of bilateral discussions, had proposed that U.S., British, Soviet and French negotiators begin high-level meetings this week on the possibility of an agreement, and Washington's initiative had been welcomed in the other capitals. Both Paris and London, however, insisted that there was no thought of actually imposing a solution. "I do not think such a solution would work," said British Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart. "On the other hand...
...would be much better if Congress would clear the slate, start over again and retain only a few basic deductions, probably including: 1) personal exemp tions for individuals, boosting the amount somewhat above the outdated $600 level enacted 21 years ago; 2) charitable contributions, without the appreciated-property loophole; 3) state and local sales and income taxes but not state gasoline taxes; and 4) business expenses, but with tighter controls against abuses. The current law covers a rather liberal range of activities. Last week, for example, Topless Dancer Marlene Sherman of San Francisco proudly announced that the IRS had agreed...