Word: overhauled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...depletion allowance, the movie star or businessman who settles his tax bill for less than he owes, the man who can afford high-priced accountants to get around taxes even if he does not evade them. The Internal Revenue Service believes that the whole tax structure needs a complete overhaul, and the Kennedy Administration has promised to present a tax-reform bill to Congress-one that promises to set off a mighty brouhaha. Meanwhile, the IRS, like the taxpayer himself, is bound to the existing tax rules-and loopholes...
Judgments & Responsibility. ABC's best witness was James Hagerty, Eisenhower's longtime press secretary, who was hired by ABC to overhaul its news service. Hagerty told how "from scratch" he had built "a vital major news operation" in one year, increasing the New York staff by 50%, more than doubling the network's Washington news bureau, and increasing news-programming time by 37%. Hagerty was both impressive and-toward his new colleagues—a bit snobbish. He seemed almost eager to disassociate himself from them...
...overhaul of the Roman Curia, the Vatican's governing bureaucracy, which would be composed of the "best-fitted and most competent" clerics in the entire world, and not merely from Italy...
...education. In 1960 on the other hand the ratio was one to one; and the move away from health and welfare donations continues to accelerate. Private donors are likewise becoming disillusioned with the menagerie of voluntary health agencies. If their vital public service is to continue, a general overhaul is necessary...
...questionnaire on the Farnsworth Room of Lamont Library, to be distributed today by Lamont officials, will investigate student reaction to possible alterations -- such as a complete overhaul in the room's reading material or the installation of a public address system playing recorded music...