Word: local
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also accepted the capital gains tax reduction but offered a complicated graduated minimum tax instead of the flat 10% minimum rate in the committee bill. Of all the reforms proposed by Carter, the only significant one to survive in the House was the elimination of deductions for state and local gasoline taxes from federal income taxes...
...announce a new program for abolishing race discrimination. While Rhodesia has accepted the principle of black majority rule, there is still statutory as well as social apartheid. Under the new program, this discrimination would be abolished in hotels, restaurants, nightclubs, swimming pools and moviehouses, in trading areas and in local elections...
More efficient management could go a long way toward ending our energy dependence as well, she says, as if we conserved energy, insulated our buildings, gave strong encouragement to solar energy and utilized our local resources--wind, water, solid waste and manpower...
...hometown girl sing with us and give her a chance." As any frequenter of Ronstadt's Hardware store in Tucson might have known, the guest was Linda Ronstadt herself, resting up at home with her parents before her next tour. Showing especially slim, sun-bronzed legs, the local torch singer joined sometime flame Jagger in a rendition of Tumbling Dice, a rocker she recorded on her own latest album, Simple Dreams. Home-crowd reaction: delirious...
...edited the Lampoon's most successful publishing project to date (1.6 million copies sold): the 1964 High School Yearbook Parody. A precursor of Animal House (also co-written by Kenney), this work was a replica of a second-rate school annual, right down to the pushy ads for local merchants and the classmates' autographed cliches in the margins. The book is so rich in social detail that it brings a whole fictional town, Dacron, Ohio, to life. The new Sunday Newspaper Parody is the Dacron Republican-Democrat (slogan: One of America's Newspapers). The two parodies take...