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Word: objectionable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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The main objection to the VAT is that it would fall heavily on the poor, who spend most of their income on basic items like food and housing.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tax Ideas from Flat to VAT | 4/16/1984 | See Source »

White House advisers have no personal objection to Jensen, 55, a former district attorney of Alameda County, Calif, who had earlier (1958-66) been an assistant D.A. there when Meese was a deputy in the same office. Jensen helped organize the mass arrests of Berkeley students during the Free Speech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Justice Dangles in Limbo | 4/9/1984 | See Source »

I wrote at once that I had not asked for a debate nor for permission to publish the correspondence, but only for permission to quote from it in some articles I was writing. I wondered if his objection to reproduction of his letters included objection to quotations from them.

Author: By Sigmund Diamond, | Title: Keeping Secrets | 4/5/1984 | See Source »

Committee Members criticized the report's evaluation of the data Dowling said his main objection to the report was "the lack of statistical analysis."

Author: By Mary F. Cliff, | Title: College Disagrees With Survey on Academic Trends In the Houses | 3/1/1984 | See Source »

In addition, I think then that there are mainly three bad consequences of affirmative action. First is that the Blacks get to thinking in negative terms, in terms of what they suffered, instead of in terms of what they can contribute to American life. And second, the air is filled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AFFIRMATIVE ACTION | 2/6/1984 | See Source »

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