Word: reform
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Lodge also called for tax credits for employers who maintain a high level of employment, reform of the Presidential election system and ratification of the proposed Panama Canal treaty...
During the late '50s Koch joined the anti-Tammany reform movement in his new neighborhood, Greenwich Village. After two years on the city council, Koch was elected to Congress in 1968. In the House, Representative Koch has been a down-the-line liberal and-despite his pugnacious stance in the mayoral campaign-an excellent conciliator. Indeed, Koch was elected secretary of New York's 39-member House congressional delegation, consisting of several factions in both parties. Says a colleague: "He doesn't let ideology interfere with getting things done. He adjusts for windage...
...G.N.P. for all of 1977, and an average increase of 5% in the first half of 1978. Eckstein foresees that the economy, after slowing somewhat in the second half of next year, will be spurred by the $15 billion tax cut envisaged in President Carter's tax-reform bill and will register a gain of 3.5% for the whole...
Another reason for uncertainty is President Carter's tax "reform" program. He was supposed to send it to Congress next week, but the Bert Lance affair so badly distracted and delayed his decision making that the tax package will not be unwrapped until a week or so later. The President is expected to propose cutting tax rates for all individual taxpayers and corporations,* giving business a more generous investment tax credit, and easing the taxation of corporate dividends-but also taxing capital gains as ordinary income and cracking down on expense-account deductions. Businessmen are unsure of not only...
...will affect them directly. Students throughout the University are watching to see whether CHUL will deal effectively with such topics as the closing of the IAB to upperclassmen, the breakfast plan, and pre-assignment. Organizers of the two fledgling student advocacy groups are watching to see whether CHUL can reform itself and provide an adequate forum for the expression of undergraduate opinions. It remains to be seen whether CHUL members, trying out their wings, can secure a stronger position in the University decision-making process