Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...performances of men in the news. This week's cover story attempts far more than a report on the capabilities and limitations of the U.S. military. It contains an analysis of public and political attitudes toward the armed forces, an assessment of military leadership and some suggestions for reform...
Nkrumah's spending and bribe taking led in 1966 to his overthrow by the military leaders. Lieut. General Joseph Ankrah became Ghana's new head of state, dedicated to reform. Ankrah and his followers pledged that they would "stamp out corruption" and their upright regime seemed to be doing just that. But last week Ankrah was also forced out of office. Reason: he took a bribe...
...afternoon by a jeep diving writer, Steven (played by Tommy). He takes her back to his cabin in the woods and they fall in love immediately. Eleanora is a girl who has no past, no roots. Her life has been a series of changes--shocks that caused her to reform her life's perspectives at every turn. (As Eleanora explains to Steven, "Change was something awful that happened when I didn't even know it. Like a punishment for living and everything. I'd wake up mornings and know all of a sudden that there were things I couldn...
...least a minimum tax at rates approximately one-half of normal, thus putting a ceiling on the benefits of tax preferences. In return, no person would have to pay more than 50% of his total income in federal income taxes. Officials of the Nixon Treasury and many reform-minded Congressmen rightly fault that idea as merely papering over today's loopholes. The plan would end none of the questionable favoritism in the present law. Moreover, it would allow the rich to pay something akin to a cheap license fee for the right to go on using loopholes...
With or without White House backing, Congress should strive to redraw the tax code into something much fairer and less complicated. But serious tax reform will have to attack special interests all at once if it is to have much chance of enactment. Piecemeal efforts invite public apathy, which makes it easier for Congress to acquiesce to the demands of loophole beneficiaries. When tax-code reform is accomplished, Congress will be free to act on some new and imaginative tax ideas, such as Nixon's plan to offer special incentives for the rebuilding of ghettos and Economist Walter Heller...