Word: minimum
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...will provide a tax cut for individual taxpayers of $4 billion next year, minus whatever new revenue comes from tax reforms. Among other Christmas tree ornaments: a 15% boost in Social Security benefits, half again the amount the Administration had approved and without any increase in rates, plus new minimum monthly payments of $100 for single persons and $150 for couples. The new minimums, up from an intolerably low $55 and $82.50, would be paid by deductions from earnings up to $12,000 a year instead of the present $7,800-starting...
...advocated a major reform of taxes which would double the minimum allowance and eliminate all exemptions and exclusions on personal income taxes...
...FIGURE of 20 per cent is an arbitrary one, based on a rough percentage of black and other minority people in the nation's population. It had become clear in the course of the struggle against the construction industry that blacks must demand that a specific minimum number of workers be hired. Phrases such as "increased participation," "substantially larger numbers," "renewed efforts," and "good faith" (reminiscent of those Harvard has used) have too often proved empty rhetoric in the past...
When Joe Kennedy moved from accumulation to preservation of capital, the safest bet seemed to be Manhattan real estate. To his delight, his shrewd broker, John J. Reynolds, the real estate counselor of the archdiocese of New York, made him vastly richer at minimum risk. Gradually, over the past seven or eight years, Ken Industries and the Park Agency, Inc., have disposed of the family's holdings in Manhattan. The golden touch that Kennedy enjoyed in his dealings is illustrated by the largest single transaction in this slow, quiet process of liquidation. In 1943 Kennedy bought the property...
Recent counts of suspended particulates (smoke and ash) in Boston's air are, on the average, about 25 per cent higher than the "adverse health effects" figures set by the U.S. Public Health Service. The Massachusetts Department of Health's tentative control proposal is the same as the minimum "adverse health effects" level, according to a leaflet distributed by the coalition...