Word: repeals
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...STOCK DIVIDENDS. Kennedy asked repeal of provisions that now allow a stockholder 1) to exclude from taxable income the first $50 of dividends received in a year, and 2) to subtract 4% of dividends beyond that amount directly from his tax bill. The committee repealed the 4% deduction, but it doubled the $50 exclusion...
...SICK PAY. Kennedy asked for repeal of a provision permitting taxpayers to exclude from taxation the pay they receive while sick (up to $100 a week). The committee instead recommended that sick pay be considered tax-free after the recipient has been off the job for 30 days...
...also in October that Congress voted to repeal the disclaimer affidavit provision of the National Defense Education Act, thus ending a three-year fight on the part of President Pusey and the University. The Corporation voted November 5 to rejoin the loan program and Harvard began receiving NDEA funds in January...
...sextein yeers not being distracted [demented] shall beate or curse their father or mother shall be put to death without mercy." On the other hand, the loss of some of the old laws might be said, from a dour point of view, to contribute to modern decadence. Among them: repeal of a prohibition (1579) against "gamyng and playing, passing to tavernis and ail-houses and wilfull remaning fra [away from] the paroche kirk in tyme of ser-mone or prayers on Sonday...
...supported the theory that duty required teachers to cooperate with congressional investigators even if the "powers of legislative inquiry are abused." He blasted athletic scholarships, "the greatest swindle ever perpetrated on American youth," bulled through the simon-pure code that now governs Ivy League football. He fought to repeal the federal student loan "disclaimer affidavit" ("we cannot legislate loyalty"), scorned the "methodological pedagogy" of teachers' colleges...