Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...miners by upgrading mine safety regulations. But he was forced to retreat on two campaign promises. First, the legislature would not buy his proposal to eliminate the 3% sales tax on groceries. Says John Fanning, chairman of the senate finance committee: "I saw no reason to give sales tax relief and then have to raise other taxes to make it up." Rockefeller's request for $100 million to improve secondary roads was slashed to $54 million. He further antagonized his fellow Democrats by refusing to fire thousands of Republicans holding patronage jobs. "Everyone expected a wholesale change in patronage...
...days after the storm, in typically bravura fashion, he announced: "I have ordered the Army Corps of Engineers not to permit the Susquehanna to rise another inch." The river rose no further. Afterward, Flood steered about $1 billion in disaster relief to his district. No wonder, then, that a constituent described him as "the next closest thing...
...memo from Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Joseph Califano to President Carter was urgent. "We must move quickly if we are to seize the initiative on this very hot issue," warned Califano. The issue: tuition aid for middle-income families with children in college, a form of relief that has become increasingly popular on Capitol Hill with campus costs accelerating at dizzying rates-up 77% from 1967 to 1976- and voters appealing for help. With two different plans already under consideration by Congress, each offering aid in the form of direct tax credits, which Carter opposes, the President heeded...
...Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan, would allow a taxpayer to deduct up to 50% of the money paid for his children's tuition fees at private elementary and secondary schools and at colleges and universities, up to a limit of $500 per child. In comparison, the College Tuition Tax Relief Act proposed by Delaware's Republican Senator William Roth is, like Carter's plan, limited to college students. It calls for an income tax credit of $250 for a dependent's first full-time year in college, $300 for the second year, $400 for the third...
...THIS INTERPLAY of tension and relief that saves Pippin time after time just after the viewer thinks the players have gone too far. The magic of Pippin is that--while confronting you with war, sex, disillusionment, love and politics--the play has the perspective to remind its audience that, "after all, this is only a musical comedy...