Word: raiser
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scene was last month's fund raiser in Washington for the National Women's Political Caucus. The caucus is a serious nationwide effort to get women involved full time in politics. Headquartered in Washington, the caucus has established branches in 46 states and has been holding well-attended regional workshops in political techniques. Its motto: "Women! Make policy not coffee." Or, to reverse a man's metaphor: if you can stand the heat, get out of the kitchen...
...town filled with $10,000 homes may need more revenue for such services as sewers and fire protection than a suburb of stately homes. Favoritism in assessments, overly generous exemptions for business, and other abuses magnify both the inequity of the tax and its inefficiency as a revenue raiser...
...nation also needs a thorough overhaul of its tax system. The aim should be to make a reformed federal income tax a major revenue raiser for states and cities as well as for the Federal Government, reducing the necessity for endless sharp increases in unfair and ineffective sales and property taxes...
...hottest economic debates this election year crackles round a measure that President Nixon has been conspicuously flirting with but has not yet openly embraced: the value-added tax. A kind of national sales tax that is imposed on most goods and services, VAT is a big revenue raiser in Europe. West Germany, for example, collects 25% of its government's money from it. By adopting VAT, the U.S. could ease its crushing problem of raising funds for urgent social needs from a revenue base that has been steadily diminished by income tax cuts...
...market analysis and direct purchasing from manufacturers, the two built the firm into a retail empire of more than 240 stores that now accounts for a tenth of all clothing sales in Britain. Sieff was a founder of the World Jewish Congress in 1936 and an early Zionist fund raiser with Chaim Weizmann, who later became Israel's first president...