Word: lowing
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Woodworth added that there would be some tax relief for "everyone at every income level," though it is estimated low-income groups will get the biggest breaks. The plan to reduce the maximum tax on personal income from 70% all the way down to 50% may be put off. The White House apparently figures the revenue is still needed because there probably will not be steeper taxes on capital gains...
...more than a century, Austrian citizens have dutifully doffed their hats to Post-und Fernmeldezentralinspektoren, bowed and scraped before the lofty Regierungsveterinärkommissäre and contorted their tongues addressing Werkstättenobermanipulanten. The bearers of these grandiloquent honorifics, which date back to the Habsburg dynasty, are actually low-ranking civil servants employed in the somewhat less than regal jobs of postal inspector, livestock inspector and repairman...
...rapid growth, that has been a shock. Japanese business firms are failing at the high rate of 1,500 a month, and unemployment, for all the vigor of the export industry, has edged up to 2.1% of the work force. In almost any other country, that would be considered low -but Japanese workers have been accustomed to guaranteed lifetime employment in the companies they joined fresh out of high school. Fukuda has announced two programs of higher spending to push up the economy, with little success so far. Yet the value of the yen, buoyed by the bloated trade surplus...
...U.M.W. the strike represents a new low in its transition from a powerful centralized union to a loose collection of squabbling locals. Union President Arnold Miller was forced by militant U.M.W. district leaders to embrace the idea of legalizing local walkouts during his re-election campaign this year (he won with barely 40% of the vote in a three-way race). Miller now contends that granting strike rights to locals would promote peace in the coal fields. His reasoning: locals armed with the right to strike could push mine owners to settle quickly grievances that now fester until workers...
...article in the most recent issue of the New England Journal of Medicine linked the nation-wide low percentage of black first-year medical students to a low percentage of blacks applying. Both statistics have declined over the last four years, the article said...