Word: relief
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus it appeared to be a relief for Nixon to leave Washington and return to an activity that seems to refresh his spirit. He engaged in his first wholly partisan political stumping since he took office. Campaigning for Republican gubernatorial candidates in Virginia and New Jersey. Nixon mentioned the war only once -and that was to tell an airport crowd in Morristown, N.J., to be sure to listen to his speech this week "on that particular matter...
Last week Long kept his pledge with only hours to spare. He reported out a bill that provides relief to the country's 72.8 million individual taxpayers and brings long-needed reform to tax statutes. Lowering tax rates and increasing certain deductions, the bill would reduce individual taxes by $9 billion by 1972. Closing loopholes, it would raise an additional $6.5 billion in federal revenues by 1979. The loss is expected to be offset by normal expansion of the economy...
...Relief Provisions. Although the Finance Committee measure stops short of the "relief and reform" bill passed by the House last August, it still represents a major step toward equalizing the federal tax burden. Using the House bill as a guide, the Finance Committee removed 5,200,000 low-income taxpayers from the tax rolls entirely, and voted rate reductions averaging 5% for those in all but the highest income categories by 1972. It also approved an increase in the 10% or $1,000 standard deduction now claimed by most taxpayers, lifting it by stages to a new maximum...
...traditional role of the SA has been cannot be surprised at Hokanson's actions on the anti-Vietnam petition. The SA's traditional role has been that of a well-dressed social committee, the main function of which was to provide M. B. A. students with noncontroversial entertainment and relief from the rigors of the two-year program. And there are many M. B. A. students who would like the SA to continue to limit its activities to "safe" and certainly non-political endeavors-such as Christmas gala affairs, blood drives, and United Fund drives. What they are finding...
...authorities have given the special diagnostic name of homosexual panic. A Louis Harris poll released last week reported that 63% of the nation consider homosexuals "harmful to American life," and even the most tolerant parents nervously watch their children for real or imagined signs of homosexuality, breathing sighs of relief when their boy or girl finally begins dating the opposite...