Word: relief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Seven years ago, Marcos came to power as an immensely popular reform President, but opposition to his regime has been growing rapidly in recent months. Large sectors of Philippine society are waiting for tangible relief from poverty, inflation and a political system that remains responsive mainly to a propertied oligarchy. Land-reform programs remain unfunded; more than 400,000 of the country's 1,000,000 university graduates are without meaningful jobs. The benefits of the country's gradual economic expansion have been slow to trickle down to most of its 38 million people. As a result...
...increases during his second term." That does not necessarily rule out some changes: tax reform could consist of a balanced package of increases and cuts, and White House Aide John Ehrlichman has put forth at least a semantic justification for VAT. If it led to local property-tax relief, said Ehrlichman, VAT would not be a tax increase but a "tax substitution...
...spend the money on any programs they pleased within that limitation. By contrast, under "general revenue sharing," which has just gone into effect, there are no restrictions at all on how the money can be used.) Payment of the promised $16 billion a year for schools and property-tax relief would almost certainly be long delayed or would have to be financed...
...State law requires that cities seeking relief from truck traffic suggest an equally accessible route, and in this case sending trucks to the Mass Pike would mean that many truck drivers would have to go way out of their way." Lundquist said...
...Many of 1969 Eagleton introduced controversial measure designed to permit college and university officials to see injunctive relief in Federal court "whenever force or the threat of force" is used to disrupt "only a spokesman for the Administration," he expressed his belief that his creativity and power to affect change, which had brought about far-reaching social legislation throughout his years in the Senate, were stifled in the Vice-Presidency...