Word: michael
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...Michael Hogan Colorado Humanities Program Denver
...gathering is decidedly middle-aged and Middle American. Yet the society's rolls list people of all ages and more than a smattering of doctors and engineers. The parapsychology class from Somerset School in Washington, D.C., included Teen-Ager Laura Michael. "I don't know what to make of it," she gushed. "It's all so mind blowing...
Long's version of the bill cuts taxes generously, particularly the capital gains tax. While the House trimmed the top capital gains tax from 49% to 35%, the Senate committee cut it to 25%. Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal warned Long to reduce the capital gains tax cut to avoid a veto, but the Senator paid no heed. The Senate followed the House in reducing the corporate income tax rate from 48% to 46% and in raising the personal exemption from $750 to $1,000. Altogether, the House voted a $16.3 billion tax reduction; the Senate bill upped the figure...
...times discuss unfavorable press notices and congratulate each other on good ones. On Nov. 7, for example, the minutes note, "The President said that he is pleased that three Cabinet members appeared on Sunday television talk shows: Vice President Walter Mondale on Meet the Press, Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal on Face the Nation and Defense Secretary Harold Brown on Issues and Answers." The main business of the meetings is the description by Cabinet members of their current agendas in brief, almost telegraphic reports. For instance, after attending a conference in Wichita, Kans., Transportation Secretary Brock Adams expressed his concern...
Until very recently the Carter Administration had tried to find benefits in a weaker dollar, claiming that it would encourage American sales abroad; and a year ago, Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal was arguing that the dollar was too expensive, and tried to talk its value down. Fortunately that view has been forcefully dismissed. Says Federal Reserve Chairman G. William Miller: "Any idea that it is in the interest of the U.S. to have a weak dollar, to have a lower dollar, is false prophecy. It is just not right...