Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THEN the British bombshell turned a steady flow into a torrent. Ignited by Conservatives looking for a campaign issue, rumors spread that hordes of colored immigrants were about to descend on British shores. These reports in turn sparked rumors in Nairobi that the British were going to limit immigration. Last month Parliament bowed to British public opinion and passed the Common-wealth Immigration...
These grants represent a 31 per cent increase over the same quarter last year. Lower grants in other quarters, however, are expected to limit this year's overall increase to 7.8 per cent. The normal annual increase in Federal grants to the Medical School is 15 per cent...
Wins & Losses. At the White House, Watson gained a reputation for unrelenting economy and secrecy. He restricted the use of Government cars for secretaries who worked late, and tried-unsuccessfully-to limit overtime pay for office workers. He also attempted to devise a telephone monitoring system so that the names of all callers would be noted. Once, following up a chance remark of the President's, he ordered a wall built between the Executive Office Building and the White House to block the vision of nosy reporters. That project was canceled, but Watson did succeed in barring reporters from...
...measure would limit imported woolen and man-made textiles to 8.6% of domestic consumption, a level well below the 10.1% of the market that such foreign products snared last year. The Senate came within a single vote (38-37) of adding a quota on dairy imports to the same tax bill. House negotiators may well resist heavy pressure to agree to the textile quota in the Sen ate-House conference on the final form of the bill. Still, the rising strength of protectionist sentiment in Congress has brought serious threats of retaliation from a dozen countries...
While the tax itself ranges from only 10% to a limit of 45%, it comes on top of Britain's already stiff regular income taxes. The result is that taxpayers now have to pay at least 690 on every dollar of investment income over $7,200. The total tax rate rises to 100%. when so-called "unearned income" reaches $43,200. After that, taxes actually exceed income. For example, people with investment income of more than $120,000 have to shell out at least $1.26 on every dollar over that amount, making it necessary to dig into capital...