Word: present
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DEPLETION. Despite a last-ditch attempt by Chairman Long to hold the oil-depletion allowance at its present 27½%, the Finance Committee bowed to public pressure to attack what many regard as the most egregious of tax shelters. Beaten, Long himself led a move to reduce the allowance to 23% - a higher figure than the House-approved cut to 20% - hoping to forestall an even greater reduction. The Senate version of the bill substantially reduces the additional taxes to be collected from the oil industry. Where the House bill would have raised the industry's taxes...
...survey covered 1,589 people, 81% of whom said they have been following the case at least "fairly closely." Since Kennedy had figured prominently in presidential speculation, Harris matched him against the 1968 Republican and American Independent candidates to see how he stood in August and at the present. The sampling immediately after the accident gave Nixon 48%, Kennedy 38% and George Wallace 8%. Now Nixon gets 54%, Kennedy 30%, and Wallace 9%. Other results of the two polls are summarized in a series of statements with which respondents were asked to agree or disagree...
...Dear Sir," begins the letter. "This sweater was a Christmas present. Would you please credit it to my account." A mundane note, perhaps. But not when the writer is returning a red cashmere pullover that was a present from her husband, John F. Kennedy. Scribbled across the letter are several notations by the unidentified store's credit department, questioning where the sweater was actually purchased and finally deciding to settle for an $18.50 credit. The latest tidbit of Jacqueline Kennedy memorabilia is soon to be put on the block along with three similar letters (expected price: several hundred dollars...
...leave, located somewhere in the future, and when my feet meet the pavement outside, I return to the present with a jarring thud. I make the adjustment in a microsecond. California is billed as a now scene. But the fact is, everyone living here has one foot in now and another in tomorrow. Here, you get the feeling, is the authentic international dateline. Here the future begins. As I walk away from Rand, the prospect seems kind of pleasing after...
...economic giant will continue its incredible growth. By 1975, says the Bank of California's economic consultant, Alden Fensel, California's gross state product will reach $150 billion, and business spending $18 billion (from the present $13.3 billion). By the same year, California's population will have risen to 23.5 million, and its personal income will have climbed from $81.7 billion to $100 billion...