Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nation's capital, some 10,000 unemployed auto workers, mainly from the Midwest, traveled to Washington on chartered buses. In the National Guard armory, they cheered wildly when Leonard Woodcock, president of the United Auto Workers, roared into the microphone: "What the hell is going on?" Unless relief was fast in coming, he promised, he will bring 200,000 unemployed workers into Washington in the spring...
...utilities and from 7% to 10% for other industries. The President had requested a hike to 12%. It also lowered the corporate income tax by applying the 22% tax rate to the first $50,000 of profits, instead of only the first $25,000. Intended mainly to give relief to small businesses, this tax cut will return a maximum of $6,500 to a single corporation...
...income tax. His proposal would generate $1 billion in income and would cancel his budget deficit of $487 million, provide the $300 million to comply with the court order on schools, and still leave revenue left over to lower the sales tax from 5% to 3% and provide some relief from local real-estate taxes. And this time he may get what he wants. Opposition is wavering. Even Democratic Senator Thomas Dunn of Union County, a longtime income tax opponent, is reconsidering. The Governor, he said, "put a shotgun to our heads...
...unrest spread beyond Eritrea to Tigre province, just south of Asmara, where guerrillas blew up a bridge and halted a convoy of 50 army tanks bound for the relief of the city. In Addis Ababa, a few skirmishes took place between nervous soldiers and civilians. The government was said to be setting up three concentration camps in the capital in possible preparation for the internment of tens of thousands of Eritreans who live there. In case serious fighting breaks out in the city, the junta was reported to be moving Haile Selassie from the National Palace to a secret hideout...
...most task force members the Thursday vote brought a sigh of relief--it may add a few appointees not so amenable to the task force line, but nonetheless, the vote will enable the existing members to continue their tenure on the force...