Word: partially
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...number of budget reductions, totaling more than $3 billion, will likely be agreed upon by the time all the appropriations bills are passed. This would amount to a partial victory for House leaders, such as Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills, who have been insisting that there is no hope of a tax increase without rigorous cutbacks by the Administration. Even so, there is still too much opposition to permit passage of a tax bill during the balance of 1967. However, Mills now believes that the economy is accelerating the way the Administration predicted it would. Therefore some tax increase...
Encouraged by the partial healing of Hardin's knees, McCurdy still worries about sophomore Keith Colburn's left ankle. Colburn, who ran a blistering 1:48.0 half mile last sping, has a tender Achilles tendon. He hung in Saturday's race for about three miles, but then had to fade as the ankle acted...
...likes to blast ahead, full-bore, from the start of a race, hoping opponents will overtax their engines trying to catch him. He is also an innovator; he invented the dangerous art of "drafting"-keeping his car practically on top of an opponent's rear bumper, using the partial vacuum created by the other car as a tow, thus conserving his own engine and fuel. Unlike many drivers, who make a fetish of braking and shifting at precisely the same points each time around a track. Petty varies his routine: "I drive by feel," he says. "Sometimes...
...same, Author Mayer has come away with more faith in the law than many lawyers. Says he: "The rest of us put up with the arrogance of the lawyers-accept their, rigidities, their partial perceptions, their occasional corruption, their portentous self-praise, their cant, their infernal waste of time -not because we care about the niceties or even the creative accomplishments of the legal system, but because we sense, we hope,' that the law seeks justice...
...than $43 million from the budget, based mainly on Brown's programs. When legislators complained at the loss of some of their pet projects, he compromised on some of his cuts, thereby had the $5.09 billion budget accepted with most of his economies intact. Reagan also won a partial victory on his campaign pledge to reduce property taxes by directing $148 million in state funds to local school boards. His tax bill provided a $22 million reduction in property taxes next year for Californians over 65. A major part of his crime program was passed, as were his bills...