Word: relief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...since a company could cut its taxes just as much by employing a part-time worker at $4,200 as it could by adding a full-timer at $8,400. Walter Heller, a member of the TIME Board of Economists, adds that the Ullman proposal would give disproportionate tax relief to companies in rapidly expanding areas like the Sunbelt but deny help to needy businesses in areas like New England. Carter's version of an employment tax credit, in contrast, would save money for all companies whose workers are covered by Social Security, while still tying the size...
...official results will not be announced for at least another week or two, but private counts by the candidates' organizations make the outcome clear: the grandfatherly McBride, 60, defeated the firebrand Sadlowski, 38, by a margin of about 3 to 2. His victory will bring sighs of relief at AFL-CIO headquarters and in the councils of the steel industry. It means that the federation's biggest union has been kept out of the hands of a rebel, Sadlowski, who has sharply denounced George Meany's leadership. It also means that the Steelworkers will begin bargaining this...
Government concentrators from Littauer to Leverett heaved a collective sigh of relief Thursday when they heard Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53 will be replaced as department chairman after this academic year by the amiable Sidney Verba '53, professor of Government...
...urge that inspired biblical figures, Leonardo da Vinci and just about everyone else who ever wanted to trade the land for the wind. Here is Simon Magus, an early Roman necromancer who rose skyward (possibly by means of a balloon) before a crowd that included St. Peter. To the relief of the early Christian spectators, Magus suffered an instant-and fatal-crash. Haining wistfully relates the tale of Bladud, a doomed 9th century British king, who borrowed a page from Greek mythologies and perished like Icarus with a pair of feather-and-wax wings. George Faux, a 19th century English...
...Harvard women's swim team, Saturday's Greater Boston Championships at MIT brought some needed relief from the high-pressure schedule the women have faced recently. Approaching the meet in a casual manner, the women calmly kicked their way to a fourth-place finish in the seven-team field...