Word: portions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...revenue-sharing system, aimed at aiding ailing state and city treasuries by returning a portion of federally collected taxes to states and localities on a pro-rated basis...
...share would be calculated through a formula involving population and the proportional share of the federal-tax revenues that the state contributes. The larger the state's proportional contribution to the federal coffers, the larger its return. Localities within the states would be eligible for a portion of the returned revenue, which would be "passed through" the state capitals and on to the city halls. Significantly, the funds would be given without any strings attached...
...holding a job would be exempted. When an ablebodied, but unemployed father applies for federal assistance under the Nixon plan, he would also have to register with a local employment service. If "suitable" work or job training is available, the applicant would have to accept. If he refused, his portion of the federal grant ($500) would be eliminated. The remaining federal funds would be made available to the mother and children through a trustee or a local welfare agency. To make vocational education both more available and more attractive, the Nixon plan calls for the creation...
...keeping 12,000 troops in the country. Not so, said Souvanna. There were only North Vietnamese "imperialists" in Laos, and they were there to "colonize and expand." U.S. intelligence estimates that North Viet Nam had more than 40,000 troops in Laos, mostly in the eastern portion where they guard the Ho Chi Minh Trail...
That is about 90 per cent of what one can say about the economic consequences of rent control. All of it was said, to be sure, repeatedly in the council chambers, but the discussion of the policy occupied but a small portion of the debate. Most of it focused on a simple, symbolic theme. Tenants--usually pictured as long-time residents of Cambridge--were being thrown out of their homes by rapacious landlords grasping for the higher rents students and other transients could pay. Eviction lists, tales of widows and amputees, and even skits were used to hammer...