Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...excite either Western or African leaders. Among them: Andreas Shipanga, a former SWAPO Information Officer released from a Tanzanian prison, who formed the SWAPO Democrats in opposition to Nujoma last month, and Herman Toivo Ya Toivo, one of SWAPO's founders, who has been in the South African maximum security prison on Robben Island for the past ten years. Toivo, popular with the Ovambo tribesmen who constitute the bulk of SWAPO membership; is no friend of Nujoma's. "His big problem is that he is no longer a major force within the country," says Shipanga. "He has been...
Carter's plan, which would raise the maximum income level at which families are eligible for federal tuition grants from $15,000 to $25,000, "would benefit a large number of Harvard students," Lyman said. These students would be eligible for grants of up to $1 600 a year. Lyman added that under the plan, more students would be eligible for subsidized loans, with interest paid by the government until the student graduates...
...produce more. How? More capital formation, more plant and equipment." He began preparing for the fight in 1975, when he became head of the Washington-based American Council for Capital Formation. Early this year, Walker and the council's staff decided to press for rolling back the maximum capital gains tax, now 49%, to the 1969 level of 25%. The first Congressman they recruited to the idea was Wisconsin Republican William Steiger, who sponsored the legislation. Walker, meanwhile, began buttonholing Congressmen in hallways, countering Treasury Department arguments against the cut and working out potential costs to the federal Treasury...
...later helped Democrat James Jones of Oklahoma put together a compromise version of Steiger's proposal, which the House Ways and Means Committee approved last week. It would cut the maximum capital gains...
...Ruth had been here seven years -- we had to let her go," Willey said, adding that eight years is the maximum time non-tenured professors may hold positions in the department...