Word: maintain
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Jarvis' foes also maintain that cutting income taxes in half would benefit the rich far more than middle-and lowin come people. Says Roland Vincent, a Los Angeles investment counselor and a leading opponent of Proposition 9: "About $3 billion in tax relief would go to about 10% of the wealthiest taxpayers in the state." His opinion seems widespread: a Los Angeles Times poll indicates that 37% of the voters who approved Proposition 13 will vote against Proposition...
...Seoul, meanwhile, an apprehensive calm prevailed. The Cabinet of Prime Minister Shin Hyon Hwack abruptly resigned, taking the blame for "failure to maintain domestic calm." It was succeeded by a new one headed by Park Choong Hoon, a retired major general and administrator credited with having been a force behind South Korea's economic development. On Tuesday the Martial Law Command announced that it had decided to close down the National Assembly indefinitely. Opposition members assembled on the grass in a kind of sit-down strike. All 43 of them offered their resignations to the floor leader. Grumbled...
...Giscard later conceded, the five-hour conversation predictably failed to deflect the Soviets from their determination to maintain control of Afghanistan. Thus the French President gave the impression of being an unsuccessful appeaser, with nothing to show for his efforts. More to the point, Giscard's unseemly rush to meet with Brezhnev unnecessarily widened the breach between Paris and Washington. Even before the trip, the U.S.-French relationship had been stretched to the danger point by what Western Europeans see as Jimmy Carter's overreaction to Afghanistan and the holding of U.S. hostages in Iran. Giscard...
...Japanese or Europeans. Says United Auto Workers President Douglas Fraser: "Once a consumer purchases a car that is well engineered, has good durability, is well serviced by dealers, logic dictates they're going back to where they've had good experience." Though GM has been able to maintain nearly all its market share during the past six months at 47%, Chrysler's has fallen from 7.7% to 6.4%, and Ford's has slumped from...
...five key issues on which Egyptian and Israeli views diverge: security in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.* Egypt has proposed a formula providing for security matters to be shared by the proposed Palestinian council, Israeli authorities and Jordanian patrols. The Israelis insist that they must maintain full military supervision over all security questions...