Word: provisionally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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It was passed as part of the continuing cat-and-mouse game between Congress and the President. In August 1970 inflation was climbing and job rolls were shrinking. Anxious about the economy, Wright Patman, the aged and wily chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee, decided to put the...
NIXON [1960, on Red China's admission to the U.N.]: In expressing my strong opposition, I pointed out that the issue wasn't whether Red China had one vote in the Assembly or even the veto power. What was really at stake was that admitting Red China to...
Stopgap Measures. He had not reckoned with the State Supreme Court, six of whose seven judges are Republicans with a well-deserved reputation for judicial conservatism. In a 5-2 decision last month, the court ruled the income tax invalid. Because the tax was graduated, the majority held, it violated...
Courts in other states have declared that such a uniformity provision does not prohibit a graduated tax, and 33 states have graduated income taxes. But the Pennsylvania court took the narrowest interpretation. Granting that the state had financial problems, the court said, this ''awareness cannot in any way...
Mixed Feelings. Not everyone was quite so happy. Even while the signing was taking place at the Prime Minister's residence, 90,000 demonstrators throughout Japan protested that the treaty lacked a clear provision for the removal of nuclear weapons from Okinawa. In sporadic clashes with police, more than...