Word: planned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seeking answers, we plan to clarify and explore man's long-ignored physical dependence on the biosphere -earth's thin envelope of air, water and soil in which life exists. Almost every week now brings new warnings of impending ecological upsets within our planet's infinitely interdependent chain of life processes: certain birds becoming extinct, hauls of inedible fish, mysterious animal sickness. Environment will tackle, for example, the effects of such forms of pollution as DDT pesticides and radioactive waste, chemical fertilizers and hot water from nuclear power reactors; it will explore the cacophony of modern noises...
Depletion Cut. The key feature of the House committee's reform plan was a slash in depletion allowances on oil and certain other extractive products. The law that is now on the books permits oil-well owners to deduct from their taxable incomes 27½% of the value that each well produces regardless of drilling or operational costs. Long deadlocked over the question of depletion cuts, the committee finally approved 18 to 7 a proposal to drop the allowance to 20%. The compromise move, which surprised even Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills, came after Louisiana's Hale Boggs...
...impossible for wealthy individuals to avoid federal income taxes entirely through tax-free investments or special loss and deduction allowances. Heeding widespread taxpayer resentment over the disclosure that 155 persons with incomes over $200,000 paid no taxes at all in 1967, Ways and Means approved a "minimum tax" plan that would require everyone to pay taxes on at least half his income. Combining proposals put forward by both the Johnson and Nixon administrations, the plan modifies the exemptions on capital gains and municipal-bond interest and eliminates the tax shelter provided by hobby-farm losses...
...story Boston plant and store for Morgan Memorial have been on strike for three weeks seeking Union recognition, a raise from the current wage of $1.60 an hour to $3.10, the repair of defective equipment at the plant, and fringe benefits of sick leave, a medical plan, and an insurance system...
...their class. They evict black and white working people from their homes in Cambridge and Roxbury to make way for expansion which can only serve the ruling class--for political science institutes and research hospitals catering to the rich. Harvard's expansion is only part of a general plan to convert Cambridge into a center for imperialist research--research into perfecting weapons and improving counter-insurgency techniques for use against the people of the world...