Word: neutrality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Oklahoma's attorney general has said that the "state should be permitted to require that a school teacher remain neutral on all controversial issues...
...biggest obstacle to tax reform is that Congress may not want to take on ( entrenched special interests unless the plan is related to the more pressing problem: those looming deficits. So far, Reagan has remained adamantly committed to a revenue-neutral plan. He made it clear at his press conference last week that he intends the Treasury measure and the Administration's fiscal 1986 budget proposal to be considered separately on Capitol Hill-- first the budget, then tax reform. A major reason: entangling the two might result in a tax increase, which Reagan staunchly opposes. "It is a two-track...
...corporations. Most middle-class tax breaks, including charitable gifts, mortgage interest on vacation homes, and the fabled three-martini lunch, would be eliminated or severely limited. In fiscal 1986, individual taxes would go down 5.9%, and business taxes would jump 25%. Consistent with Reagan's insistence on a "revenue-neutral" plan, the Treasury's total take would stay about the same...
Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of the errant missile's flight was the degree to which, on the eve of U.S.-Soviet disarmament talks in Geneva, governments played down the incident. At first the Soviet Union made no comment. In neutral Finland, where soldiers scoured the border area by helicopter and snowmobile in the bitter cold, officials quietly checked with Moscow to see what had happened. President Mauno Koivisto declared in a New Year's message that cruise missiles were causing "insecurity" in Scandinavia and called on both NATO and the Warsaw Pact to accept a ban on such weapons...
...accusations about his book. The charges, ranging from sloppiness to fraud, continued to buffet him a fortnight ago at the American Historical Association convention in Chicago, where he found himself walled in by controversy. Commented A.H.A. Executive Director Samuel Gammon: "It's almost impossible to get involved and be neutral...