Word: matching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Considering the Administration's determination to make federal spending match federal income, it was hardly surprising that Treasury Secretary David Kennedy asked the Senate to cut in half the $2.4-billion-a-year revenue loss foreseen in the House measure. Despite the rebellious mood of the nation's taxpayers, Secretary Kennedy recommended somewhat less relief for low-and middle-income individuals and families. In the most unexpected move of all, he asked that corporate income tax rates be reduced by 2 percentage points rather than increased or held at the current 52.8%. Nor would Kennedy move nearly...
...reappearance was greeted by a mixture of nervous smiles and wonderment by his weathered-faced cattleman neighbors in the hill country and by the soft-handed politicians and businessmen in Austin, 60 miles away. Johnson, everyone said, would be a whirlwind. With his gargantuan energy and an ego to match, he would be into everything-buying up banks and newspapers, pulling the strings of Texas politics, holding rambling press conferences on everything from cattle prices to Republican snafus...
...scene of blazes in 1949 and 1964, during Jordanian rule. What did matter was that, because millions of Arabs reflexively held Israel responsible for the latest fire, guerrilla organizations were strengthened in their hard-line anti-Israeli positions. Arab governments adopted correspondingly tough stances in an effort to match the extremists' thunder...
Pregnancies last nine months, and the film is paced to match. The only fire that the film stokes is under the bureaucratically callous procedures of British welfare medics, a group that seems to inspire a special nausea in Scriptwriter Margaret Drabble. Sandy Dennis has curtailed some of her facial acrobatics, but she still speaks some of her lines as if she were blowing them through her gums. Just to fill the new feminists' cup of joy, Sandy's baby is a girl...
This should be daft, glorious stuff, and West ought to lurch into life as a monstrously American folk villain, the match of such folk heroes as Paul Bunyan and Davy Crockett. If Minnesota's lakes are the hoof-prints of Bunyan's blue ox, why can't Warren Harding, Al Capone and Joseph McCarthy be the droppings from Eddie West's cigar...