Word: lid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ruling was the latest blow to the ballyhooed reform scheme enacted by Congress ten years ago to clean up presidential and congressional elections. In 1976 the high court first ruled that the reforms could not constitutionally limit independent expenditures. At the same time it removed a lid on how much of their own money candidates could spend to get elected. That suit was brought by a surprising coalition, including James Buckley and Eugene McCarthy. But the first ruling did not deal with independent groups supporting presidential candidates who choose to accept public financing. Such candidates voluntarily accept curbs on their...
...Administration is also considering a lid of $120 a month on the tax-deductible health-insurance premiums that an employer can pay for each worker, and perhaps letting individual taxpayers deduct only medical expenses that exceed 10% of annual income, vs. 3% now. That proposal is politically explosive, since it would raise the tax bills of people who are hard-pressed by illness. The rationale: medical inflation is being fanned because the underwriting of bills by private insurers or the Government gives neither hospitals, doctors nor patients any incentive to hold down costs. Another possible proposal: eliminating the deductions that...
...view" of a whole terrain, but moves closer, toward this lobed and writhing emblem which suggests either body or still life: the curves of a thigh, a buttock or a breast, the petals of a flower rising on its stalk, or-in some of the drawings-the black propped lid of a grand piano. The body image is confirmed particularly in a work like Untitled #45, which is haunted by the swollen, vegetative forms of 1930s Picasso, rather than 1914 Matisse. Of course, the drawings also seem more intimate than the previous Ocean Parks simply because they are drawings-smaller...
...some 400,000 unionized workers in an attempt to encourage them to hold down demands. A pointed message in the presentation: American labor costs are $8 per hr. more than in Japan, and U.S. firms can only compete if they can narrow that gap. GM wants to put a lid on automatic cost of living allowances, increase employee contributions to health plans, and reduce holiday and vacation time. U.A.W. members now receive $19.65 per hr. in wages and fringe benefts and get 43 paid days off a year...
That didn't matter, however, because freshman forward Wendy Joseph's bucket and Long's layup underneath the basket all but sealed the lid on Harvard's first victory of the 1981-82 campaign...