Word: nine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many details of its proposal to tax capital gains at full ordinary-income rates, which will probably be the most hotly disputed part of the program. (At present, only half of capital gains-profits on the sale of assets, such as stock or real estate, held for more than nine months-are taxed.) Contrary to many predictions, Treasury proposed no exemption for the forest-products industry, which is heavily, dependent on capital gains for earnings and is likely to be a fierce opponent of the measure...
...unions' quiescence, however, provides no reassurance about what might happen if the left actually does win control of the government. The Socialist-Communist "common program," signed in 1972, calls for nationalization of all private banks and nine large, privately owned companies. Two of these are subsidiaries of U.S.-headquartered multinationals-Honeywell...
Last month's rift between Communists and Socialists occurred over the question of what to do about the hundreds of subsidiaries owned by the nine industrial groups that they hope to nationalize. The Socialists wanted to take over only those that are wholly owned, while the Communists had their eye on all those in which the parent company's stake was greater than 50%. Business reacted to news of the impasse with jubilation: the next day stock prices on the stagnant Paris Bourse climbed 4%. Today the index stands almost 24% above its level last...
...professor, former Solicitor General and special Watergate prosecutor, was resplendent in black cutaway, striped tie and a matching gray crew cut. So was Wade McCree, in the Solicitor General's traditional morning coat. At precisely 10 that Wednesday morning, the court clerk intoned "Oyez, oyez," and the nine black-robed Justices suddenly appeared from behind red velvet curtains and settled into their seats at the elevated bench. The stage was set for what could turn out to be the most important civil rights case in a generation, Regents of the University of California v. Allan Bakke...
...will reverse the California Supreme Court and send the case back for reexamination. They likely will say it is permissible to take race into account but a predetermined number or quota may not be acceptable. I would not be surprised if there were as many as five or even nine opinions...