Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Average payments to beneficiaries will rise 13% in 1968, while at the low end of the scale the increase will be 25%. The law provides for additional increments in later years. Medicare benefits will be expanded as well. And although the base on which both employers and employees pay the social security tax rises this year from $6,600 to $7,800, the present tax rate of 4.4% does not begin going up until 1969, when it will be 4.8%. Subsequent increases over two decades will bring the figure...
...much lately that for the first time in history, it outstrips the amount newly mined. This intensifies the gold shortage, which aggravates the U.S.'s immediate difficulties. Gold is exceptionally difficult to mine, and most U.S. miners find that the price of $35 an ounce is too low to pay them to dig it out. In fiscal 1967, only $1.4 billion worth was unearthed, but $1.7 billion worth was bought by industry, jewelers, dentists and speculators. The $300 million difference was made up mostly by sales from the U.S. to the so-called "London gold pool"-a free market...
Says Kurland: "There is a revelation of problems an ordinary student doesn't know exist. Grant is a master of the Socratic method, superb in dialogue." He characteristically makes a point by bashing down his glasses so hard that they sometimes break. There is some disagreement about his low, deep voice; Kurland says it has the "sort of cadence and vibrancy of a Welsh poet." Students call Gilmore "the Grunt" because of his habit of harrumphing, and talking into his mustache. One wisecracks that "it's been claimed that he only educates 25% of his students; the rest...
...mercury plunged as low as -20 in suburban areas last night. Some letup is forecast for today, but more snow is expected Wednesday...
Billion Dollar Brain by Ken Russell. Billion Dollar Brain is a provocative film, inventive and intelligent. In a period marked increasingly by acceptance of lack of craft (witness the reception of Mike Nichols' mediocre The Graduate), Billion Dollar Brain stands out as a low-level case-book of cinematic efficiency. Russell's camerawork is frequently tantamount to cutting: he will start on a medium shot if Michael Caine, swing up to a sign on a building, down to people leaving the building, and back to Michael Caine--all so quickly we might have seen four separate shots. The interior-exterior...