Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Castro's famous beard is necked with gray. His green fatigues have been artfully tailored to all but conceal a midriff bulge. Cuba's "maximum leader" will turn 52 in August. He has ruled Cuba for 19 years. Fully 45% of his 9.7 million subjects were born after Fidel and his guerrilla band came down from the Sierra Maestra and marched triumphantly into Havana...
...months of testimony and five days of deliberation, the four-man, two-woman jury. which under Italian law was joined by Barbaro and his assistant judge, returned its verdict. It acquitted 16 of the defendants, ordered a new trial for one and found 29 guilty; Curcio, 37, got the maximum sentence: 15 years...
...sentence, imposed by judges from three local jurisdictions, was an apparently sufficient array of 27 prison terms totaling 547 years. It included six murder sentences of from 25 years to life, the maximum penalty allowed in New York State. Concluded Justice Kapelman: "It is this court's fervent wish that this defendant be imprisoned until the day of his death...
...basic principle would be to let people provide for their own security as much as possible instead of having the Government do it through taxation. Medical or life insurance premiums, for instance, could be made taxdeductible, at least up to a point. Such policies, says Kristol, would combine the "maximum degree of individual independence and the least bureaucratic coercion...
...Washington, and there is some evidence that Washington is beginning to take heed. In what a Capitol Hill observer calls "one of the legislative surprises of the year," Wisconsin's Republican Congressman William Steiger has mustered astonishing support for a proposal to cut the capital-gains tax from a maximum rate of 49% to 25%. Though the Administration dismisses it as a "fat cat" proposal, Steiger's measure has won endorsement from 61 Senators and, in the name of job creation, from none other than AFL-CIO Leader George Meany. Steiger had been talking of settling for a new ceiling...