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...CASUALTY LOSSES. Kennedy asked that casualty losses, now deductible in full (even the dented car fender), be allowed only to the extent that they exceed 4% of income. The committee instead decided to prohibit deduction of the first $100 of each casualty loss...
...other hand, do not hold themselves a class apart and actually delve into practical politics, taking part in campaigns. In Japan, Reischauer maintains students remain on the political periphery and merely comment. This is a result, not only of their class aloofness, but of stringent electioneering laws which prohibit them from ringing doorbells and participating in other campaign activities. Actual practical politics are generally viewed as "dirty" in Japan...
What It Does & Doesn't. This treaty advances, though it does not assure world peace; and it will inhibit, though it does not prohibit, the nuclear arms race. While it does not prohibit the United States and the Soviet Union from engaging in all nuclear tests, it will radically limit the testing in which both nations would otherwise engage. While it will not end the threat of nuclear war or outlaw the use of nuclear weapons, it can reduce world tensions, open a way to further agreements and thereby help to ease the threat of war. While it cannot...
...Document. The Moscow agreement itself is simple-some feel too simple. In 800 refreshingly brief words, the U.S., Britain and the Soviet Union agree to "prohibit, to prevent and not to carry out any nuclear weapons test explosion or any other nuclear explosion" in the atmosphere, outer space or under water, the treaty to be of "indefinite duration." This wording raised the question of whether prohibition of "any other nuclear explosion" might be interpreted as a prohibition of the use of nuclear weapons even in wartime; clearing up any doubts, the President in his speech took pains to preclude that...
...allows those who do not wish to join to pay a service fee equal to union dues. The fee ostensibly covers these workers' share of the collective bargaining cost. Four years ago, when an Indiana court ruled that the state's right-to-work law did not prohibit agency-shop contracts, labor leaders saw the chance to set up such shops in other right-to-work states. Twelve of the state right-to-work laws specifically ban agency shops as well as union shops, but labor hoped to use the agency in the remaining seven states despite...