Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reform program later this year. Even with Nixon's pledge, the margin was an almost invisible five votes. The Democratic leadership in the Senate was less trusting. Reform, the leaders reasoned, means one thing to them, another to a President who during the campaign favored retention of the oil-depletion allowance-one of the chief targets of the reformers. Their other goals include a minimum income tax to eliminate the anomaly of some millionaires' paying no tax at all and an end to the no-tax loophole for holders of state and municipal bonds...
Until last week the plot was thus about as involved as Dick and Jane. Enter Russell Long, chairman of the Finance Committee and junior Senator from Louisiana, some of whose campaign contributors look upon a cut in the oil-depletion allowance as something akin to matricide. With scarcely a sideways glance at the Democratic leadership, which wanted delay, Long bolted party ties and brought the surtax, minus reform, to a committee vote. With two Democrats defecting, it was approved 9 to 8. Some saw a trace of hubris in Long's defiance of his party's leadership. Since...
...this is just water off the oil skins of François Spoerry, the man responsible for the Riviera's most spectacular new marina. Spoerry, 56, is an Alsatian architect and boat nut. He bought his swamp (for $600,000) in 1966; he dredged it and built the quays; he designed the houses and has been putting them up ever since. "I have tried to integrate the boat into the life of the vacation house," he says. "I built Port Grimaud for people who love sailing and the sea." And naturally, for profit...
...meetings and make decisions, let alone spend time with the family. A study of Chicago businessmen by Daniel D. Howard Associates, management consultants, showed that the average chief executive puts in 53 hours at his desk every week, then carries another ten hours of work home. At the Ashland Oil & Refining Co. in Ashland, Ky., higher-ranking officers often work a 61-day week, with only enough time off on weekends for church and 18 holes of golf at the club...
...this same paper were editorials in favor of the oil depletion allowance in the Federal income tax, and against efforts to control air pollution...