Word: personalized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senate was, in effect, stampeded by an amendment proposed by Senator Albert Gore, who faces a tough election battle next year. By raising personal exemptions from $600 per person to $800, the Gore amendment would reduce taxes by 61% for a family of four earning $5,000 a year, by 27% for a family earning $7,500. Ignoring President Nixon's warning that Gore's proposals failed "the test of fiscal responsibility," the Senate last week passed them by a vote...
...fellow ex-convict from the McNeil Island penitentiary in Washington State said that Manson was a strangely passive person who would sulk if attacked rather than strike back. He tried with considerable success to get others to do his bidding: "He had a certain smile that would always get to people. He tried to hypnotize them. He always got other people to supply him with the necessities...
Unruh is not an impressive person. He is large; he used to be even larger, when he weighed nearly 300 pounds and was called Big Daddy. He looks like a football player, but like a football player who can no longer run or block or tackle, a football player who after all these years can only serve the team by punting...
...really knew what was coming off except for the signer-in, who was establishing order person by person. Since each person wanted the whole business explained, it was nine-thirty before he got to my area. Meanwhile the working-class sector of the production crew had brought out four large coffee machines, styrofoam cups, plastic spoons, and so forth, along with a huge box of packaged coffee-cakes. Each package had one yellow roll with sugar frosting smeared against the Saran wrap that held it and a pat of margarine on a blue paper napkin. I ate the frosting...
...Hiller has sworn not to use any too-artsy techniques, like the slow motion in Goodbye Columbus as Ali bounds toward the river for a swim one balmy evening. Altogether, Hiller impressed me as the most intelligent person around. He strolled up and down the ice in his huge grey-green parka, looking out from the fur with deep brown monkey-wise eyes in a face that does not look so much lined or aged as well-used...