Word: outlay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present rate of expenditure. If taxes were raised to balance the current budget they would take a share of the national income only slightly greater than during the war, when the level of income was much lower. The government could close the contemplated inflationary gap between revenue and outlay by increasing corporation taxes, excises on luxuries, estate and inheritance taxes, tax rates for high income groups, and removing present loopholes in the tax structure...
...concentrated within the fixed-income group, taxation must enforce a lower standard of living for the nation as a whole. At that time, if not sooner, a general sales tax and increases in the basic rate of personal taxes will the needed to cut into consumption outlay by low and middle-income groups...
Griffiths, could not or would not say. He announced that the farm's total exports to Britain have been 38,620 eggs and 58,617 pounds of poultry. Horrified Britons realized last week that on a total outlay of ?825,000, each egg and each pound of poultry cost around...
...easily become law since many Moslems frown on female independence; this is in keeping with the spirit of the Koran, which says: "Men are superior to women on account of the qualities with which God hath gifted one above the other, and on account of the outlay they [the men] make from their substance for them [the women]." Turkey, which has had woman suffrage since 1934, Albania, Pakistan and Indonesia are exceptions among Moslem states. Last week at a noon prayer meeting in Cairo's Haddara Mosque, Moslem Leader Sheikh Mohamed Hamed Elfiqi described Egypt's votes...
...same plan was attempted under identical conditions. In that instance, the deliberations that followed the pooling of gross receipts deteriorated into bitter haggling over an equitable distribution of the money, since it was observed that a couple of House Dance Committees has skimped on their entertainment and decorations outlay in order to squeeze the gross for as much net profit as possible--at the expense of the other Houses. Also at that time, Leverett noticed that her contribution to the general fund had been $300 more than that of any other House. The meeting disbanded with all money returned...