Word: prefered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What to do to keep the bus. Mr. Leahy suggests that if the bus were swamped with passengers these next two nights, the Committee on Houses would have to reconsider. I would prefer to see the bus continued on the social-benefit grounds enumerated above, rather than on the grounds that it has earned its keep. Roy S. Goldfinger...
While economists tend to favor the negative-income-tax principle, sociologists, most notably Daniel Patrick Moynihan, tend to prefer another kind of income supplement: family or children's allowances. Under this scheme, every family in the country, rich or poor, would receive a certain amount of money for each child. The affluent would return it with their income taxes, but those who really need it would keep it for basic needs. The main beneficiaries would be the children. No fewer than 62 nations, including Canada and all the countries of Europe, already give family allowances. The family allowance, unlike...
...Under the prevailing piecework system, mechanics are paid a set rate for each job rather than an hourly wage. To figure the labor charge, garages rely on "flat-rate" manuals that specify how much time each job should take. Although automakers publish their own flat-rate manuals, many garages prefer to use independent books that list longer work times-and thus higher charges-for each job. Whatever the manual, the cost of labor ordinarily is figured at $7.50 an hour, which is generally split fifty-fifty between the mechanic and the garage owner. Thus both have reason to complete...
None of the oil is likely to reach U.S. markets until 1971. The companies and the Alaskan state government are still mulling over ways to move it. The companies prefer a pipeline to a relatively ice-free port like Valdez. The line would have to weather destructive ground heaves caused by summer thaws and winter freezes and could cost $500 million or more. Alaska's Governor Walter J. Hickel is pushing his longtime dream of extending the Alaska Railroad beyond its present Fairbanks terminal all the way to the Arctic Sea. Washington's Department of Transportation, which runs...
...nothing to do with servicing collectors," snorts David Lee. "It's art for living, for turning on with." Rather than produce art that would sell, he supports himself by carpentry and writing. "I feel ridiculous, selling my work at a gallery," says Bellinger, who would prefer to make his work in quantity and sell it cheaply at a department store. "To me, a rope is a simple, physical expression of an idea, a way of conveying information. What gives a man power today is not what he has, but what he knows. The gallery system is out of tune...