Word: reformers
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Having presented his new welfare proposals to the nation on television, Richard Nixon turned last week to the arduous task of selling his innovative program to Congress. It will take some doing. While generally lauding the direction of Nixon's reform efforts, many legislators on both the left and the right have doubts about the details of the proposals. The President delivered his reforms to Congress in three separate messages...
...more than a decade, tax reform has been the subject of more talk than action on Capitol Hill. Last week this tradition was reversed when the House took a long-overdue step toward granting the country's front-line taxpayers some R & R from the financial wars. By a lopsided vote of 394 to 30, the House approved a bill that would ultimately give citizens $9.2 billion worth of relief, by lowering certain tax payments, and the Treasury $6.9 billion worth of reform, by plugging various loopholes...
...Boom, Italy's continuing prosperity, remains in his old job at the Treasury. Leftist Carlo Donat-Cattin, a newcomer to the Cabinet who favors increased cooperation with the Communist Party, is Labor Minister. Rumor has the promise of the Socialists that they will help him pass several reform bills, including one to modernize It aly's archaic universities, another to finance new regional governments...
...that Congress is moving at last to reform the tax code (see THE NATION), many well-used loopholes will be plugged. U.S. Trust will undoubtedly find new gaps in the law and apply them for the enrichment of company and client alike. Meanwhile, there probably will be a strong growth in what Chairman Ammidon calls "the managing of money so that its owners will be free to turn their full attention to their own businesses." Not only will troubled markets and tighter tax laws make it harder for the amateur investor to turn a profit, but many...
...already dedicated geographer, he set out to determine the course of the Amur River, a project that led him into a total revision of the geographical concept of Central Asia. He was impressed by the semi-Communistic "brotherly organization" of the Dukhobor sect. He proposed a sweeping agricultural reform, which was widely hailed. But then the whole enterprise bogged down in Czarist bureaucracies. "I lost in Siberia whatever faith in state discipline I had cherished before. I was prepared to become an anarchist," he wrote...