Word: local
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What sets this tax season apart is the growing alarm in the nation at the size of the entire tax burden-about 34% of family incomes-including local property taxes, Social Security withholding and right on up to the federal bite, which is the biggest. While three out of four of those federal returns will ask for refunds, the hope of getting a little money back will often be dampened by the duty of computation ("My own return has driven me right up the tree," confesses a man at the U.S. Treasury...
...United States has traditionall regarded education as a state and local affair, but in recent years a multi-billion dollar federal education budget and a widespread dissatisfaction with the quality of education in America have created intense pressure in Washington to give education cabinet-level importance, Bailey said...
...conference, jointly sponsored by the Institute of Politics and the Massachusetts League of Cities and Towns, is designed to teach councilors creative and professional techniques, and to express Harvard's newly increased concern for improving local government...
Today the councilors will participate in a panel discussin on "Personnel Management and the City Council," and listen to a presentation of "Intergovernmental Relations: Federal-Local" to be given by William Spring '59, a member of the White House domestic policy staff, before they leave tonight...
James P. Costello, general agent for Local 40--the B&G carpenters' branch of the MTC--countered the University allegations of illegality, saying that the Harvard-MTC agreement "does not deal with a dispute over job security." Once again, as in the disagreement over contracting-out work, the two sides contradicted each other. This time, though, the University, not the union, took action...