Word: program
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will have a tax program, rely on it. It will be next. It will fill the gap," Keverian said. "Anyone who understands state government and doesn't support it doesn't want a balanced budget...
Although nutrition subsidies are important, there is one that ought to be eliminated. Those who get upset over Reaganesque tales of free-loaders buying steaks with food stamps should be infuriated by the program that allows rich investment bankers to dine on filet mignon at the taxpayers' expense...
...That program is the corporate tax deduction for business entertainment, which subsidizes the fabled "threemartini lunches." Although it isn't ordinarily considered a welfare program, the travel and entertainment ("T and E") deduction works exactly like one. Corporations can deduct 80 percent of the cost of their executives' expense account lunches (and other entertainment expenses) from their taxable income...
...member National Assembly voted unanimously by a show of hands to oust Zhivkov and to replace him with Petar Mladenov, who took over from Zhivkov as party chief last week. Deputies praised Mladenov for his "enthusiasm" for perestroika, Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev's reform program...
Coinciding with the Smokeout, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) this week introduced a bill calling for a $185 million program to help limit the use of cigarettes...