Word: page
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...page bill is the first comprehensive revision of the U.S. tax code since the income tax was adopted in 1913. Despite its sweeping nature, however, there was little disagreement over its passage. Blaming a "misunderstanding," Ways and Means Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills defused potential liberal opposition to the bill by providing tax breaks for lower-and middle-income taxpayers left out of the measure as reported by his committee. Inclusion of those in the $7,000 to $12,000 categories will cost the Treasury $2.4 billion. Only three-quarters of the time allocated for floor debate was used. Constituent mail...
Noguchi's supporters formed J.U.S.T. (Japanese United in Search for Truth), which took full-page ads in the Los Angeles papers to proclaim: "If this can happen to one of us, it can happen...
...started more than three years ago, when Newsday Columnist Mike McGrady was sitting at his desk reading Valley of the Dolls and getting madder with each page. "I was appalled by the kind of books making enormous successes," he remembers. Rather than curse the darkness, McGrady lit upon the idea of how to succeed in bestsellerdom without really trying. He turned to his typewriter and, within a week, finished a plot outline and a memorandum that he distributed to nearly a hundred of his friends. "As one of Newsday's truly outstanding literary talents," the now-historic document began...
...occasional pontification, but his saving grace was a matter-of-fact, incongruous humor. In Macdonald, the laboring faces and the aura of overhanging doom are intended as symbolic of general existential despair and specific revulsion against California materialism. The trouble is that the symbols are strewn on the page like shorthand glyphs rather than metaphors. As Macdonald used to know, and now seems to forget, the order of imperatives in mystery writing is plot first, red herrings second, and philosophizing last...
...Committee of Fifteen is currently mailing a 77-page pamphlet to all students and officers of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, including incoming freshmen...