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"We are fairly certain that there was a major impact because of this new provision of the law," says an IRS spokesman, politely sidestepping the more pointed conclusion that some children previously cited as dependents existed only in the imagination of resourceful 1040 filers. Estimated windfall to the U.S. Treasury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXES: Is This Kid For Real? | 2/25/1991 | See Source »

Many Blacks on campus were incensed by the Faculty Committee's decision, and interpreted it as fundamentally undermining the spirit of the Rosovsky Committee's Report. "The 'Joint majors provision' cut into the autonomy of the field," Hall says. "All the students asked for [and the University denied] was a...

Author: By Roger G. Kuo, | Title: The Troubled History of Afro-Am | 2/4/1991 | See Source »

The repression soon took more concrete form. The Espionage Act, which took effect on June 5, 1917, put unprecedented powers in the hands of the federal government. It forbade anyone from interfering with military operations (a provision that was interpreted quite liberally) and empowered Postmaster General Albert Burleson to close...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: Here We Go Again | 1/31/1991 | See Source »

The proposal includes a provision to combine money from the city's Affordable Housing Trust Fund with gains from the new upper-income excise tax to offer incentives for landlords to upgrade their housing units.

Author: By Erica L. Werner, | Title: Council Split Over Housing Plan | 1/30/1991 | See Source »

As soon as the Pentagon's rules were made final, the presidents of the four major TV news networks sent a letter of protest to Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney. So did editors of the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Philadelphia Inquirer, TIME and the Associated Press, while the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looking Over Their Shoulders | 1/21/1991 | See Source »

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