Word: regardless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feature of the House committee's reform plan was a slash in depletion allowances on oil and certain other extractive products. The law that is now on the books permits oil-well owners to deduct from their taxable incomes 27½% of the value that each well produces regardless of drilling or operational costs. Long deadlocked over the question of depletion cuts, the committee finally approved 18 to 7 a proposal to drop the allowance to 20%. The compromise move, which surprised even Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills, came after Louisiana's Hale Boggs, a longtime guardian...
...Senator McCarthy, the decision to retire for the time being-regardless of his marital situation-was a practical one. He has lost standing in Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor party. Among the electorate, law-and-order seems to have become a bigger issue than Viet...
...struggle is just, and no punishment is justified, regardless of procedure. I am not opposed, however, to answering questions about my "conduct" and presenting my "case," as President Pusey has asked me to do before this committee. But for me to do this, two conditions would be necessary: that any "hearings" be public and that they be held in the fall when all interested students and faculty could attend. I would welcome such an opportunity to explain why I and others took such actions as we did--though I believe out reasons are already clear to most persons at Harvard...
...time. Artists Paul Klee, Josef Albers and Wassily Kandinsky taught alongside Architects Marcel Breuer and Mies van der Rohe, among others, sharing their excitement with one another and the students. They brought together all the arts: weaving and furniture-making, as well as graphics, painting and architecture. Their work, regardless of medium, material or size, recognized the force of industrialism and the beauty of the machine. It was an entirely new way of looking at the world...
...medical activists, the chief issues include the need for more elective courses, earlier contact with the patient and increased admission of minority-group students. Most important, the activists call for a radical reorganization of existing medical and health services so that everyone will receive adequate care, regardless of ability...