Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Woodworth added that there would be some tax relief for "everyone at every income level," though it is estimated low-income groups will get the biggest breaks. The plan to reduce the maximum tax on personal income from 70% all the way down to 50% may be put off. The White House apparently figures the revenue is still needed because there probably will not be steeper taxes on capital gains...
...three-hour exam, divided into math and verbal sections, focused on students' ability to cope with such simple tasks as filling out job applications and reading labels on canned goods. The exam, said the state testing director, Thomas Fisher, was "very, very basic" -seventh-or eighth-grade level...
...popularity has dropped sharply. NIX ON DIXY bumper stickers are starting to appear, and critics are complaining about "Raydiation." Her decline in esteem is due in part to the fact that Ray has turned out to be something of an autocrat, who insists on loyalty at every level. One of her first acts was to replace the staff at the Governor's mansion, including some servants who had been there for years. Her aides, says one fellow Democrat, "aren't just yes people. They're yes-yes-yes people. She intimidates all of them." Her audiences are no longer composed...
...fight over the shape of the future is even fiercer on the local level than in the state capitals of the Northwest. The battle flares on individual bumper stickers: SIERRA CLUB, KISS MY AXE, V. DON'T CALIFORNICATE IDAHO. On fashionable Mercer Island, just across from Seattle, residents have stalled the construction of two bridges for ten years to hold down growth, although the present spans are dangerous and jam with traffic during rush hours. In Lewiston, Idaho, the Potlatch lumber company is fighting the Sierra Club and others for permission to cut unsightly swaths through stands of white...
Your presupposition of a "substantial level of personal wealth" as a requisite for entry is just as far off the mark. People can (and have) made significant collections of materials that cost them little or nothing except the wit to perceive that the collection was worth forming. Some of them were pretty esoteric, too, and some of the more esoteric ones have proved unexpectedly useful as tools of scholarship...