Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...firm White House control over the handling of key issues and constituent groups. These White House directed efforts will control the key Executive Branch operations having the highest potential political pay-off... We must establish management procedures to ensure that the Departments systematically identify opportunities and utilize resources for maximum political benefits...
Since he left government, one might say Malek has wrung the maximum marginal return from his experience there. His selection as a study group leader, in fact, was based partly, Hayden says, on an article Malek published in the Fall 1972 Harvard Business Review called "Mr. Executive Goes to Washington." In the article, Malek says he will relate "the political and bureaucratic quicksands" that confront businessmen, and shows how "some former businessmen have avoided entrapment and carried out their programs relatively successfully...
Jail Ahead? As it is, the accused corporations and individuals face maximum fines of $50,000 each; if convicted, the executives could go to jail for up to a year. The Justice Department also filed a civil suit against the 22 corporate defendants that still are operating independently (one has been merged). The suit seeks a court-ordered ban on price fixing of boxes and any other products that the companies make...
...corporate income taxes, go into the system. It relies almost exclusively on a special payroll tax levied equally on employer and employee: currently each pays 5.85% of a worker's earnings up to $15,300 a year. The tax has risen sharply. As recently as 1965, the maximum Social Security tax that any worker paid was $174 a year; now it is $895.05. The tax has become a major burden on many low-income workers: an employee earning $7,999 a year may well pay more in Social Security taxes ($467.94) than he does in income taxes ($463). Still...
...immediately. Aware that their resignations could help the anti-nuclear cause, they planned their move with another C.I.F. member, James Burch, who is also president of Project Survival, a citizens' group currently urging Californians to cast antinuclear votes in June. Burch helped them to orchestrate their announcement for maximum effect. GE officials quickly attempted to downgrade the significance of the resignations, pointing out that there are hundreds of people in the nuclear industry who are convinced that nuclear reactors can be designed to operate safely. Still, the defection to antinuke forces by three nuclear engineers with good technical reputations...