Word: recommender
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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TAXES. In one of his few flights of angry rhetoric, Carter calls the present loophole-ridden federal tax code "a disgrace to the human race." He pledges to recommend a total overhaul, scrapping scores of deductions and exemptions in return for generally lower rates...
...work out the details of a tax overhaul, Carter says, will take a full year after he enters the White House. But he has given some startling glimpses of specifics. He once mentioned the deduction for interest on home mortgages as one that he might recommend dropping, though he lately has shied away from the subject. And he believes it is unfair to tax corporate profits and then tax the dividends paid out of those profits−so he would either knock out all taxes on dividend income or stop taxing the portion of corporate profits that is paid...
...Ford Administration, anxious to keep long strikes from disrupting the recovery, is keeping a nervous eye on the rubber situation. Yet mediators have not seen fit to call round-the-clock negotiations, let alone recommend that the Administration ask for a Taft-Hartley Act injunction that would stop the strike for 80 days. Such injunctions are permitted legally only if a strike damages the national "health and safety" and, says one federal official, "we would have a hell of a time making a case" for an injunction...
...General Conference of the United Methodist Church meeting in Portland, Ore., last month. Strong support for a conservative position resulted in a refusal to fund a broad study on sexuality and a toughening of an official 1972 Methodist position on homosexuality. The statement that the church did "not recommend" marriage between people of the same sex was changed to "not recognize...
...panel reserved its strongest criticism for the uncooperative and called on the GSD faculty to take "due note of this fact and take such action as they deem appropriate," the members of the Academic Policy Committee--who are colleagues of the criticized faculty members--concluded that they could not recommend that the GSD even consider censure "in the absence of known standards and accepted procedures in this area." This flatly contradicts the report of the first committee, which noted explicitly that "in normal academic practice, as embodied in policy statements of the American Association of University Professors, past practice...