Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first quarter of this year, planned spending dipped by 2½ % and in some industries by as much as 10%. Gainsbrugh believes that the long boom in capital spending will level off through the year, as businessmen face up to a squeeze on profits and repeal of the 7% investment tax credit, and that by early 1970 such outlays may begin to contract. There is a rather general belief that the economy as a whole may slow down more quickly. President Nixon last week predicted that the restraining effects of the surtax extension would begin to appear "within a matter...
...commission rates that member brokers charge to stock traders are under attack by the Justice Department, the Securities and Exchange Commission and institutional investors. All of them contend that the cuts made in some rates last December did not go far enough. Finally, some member firms are clamoring for repeal of an exchange rule that prevents them from raising needed capital by selling their own stock to the public...
...years ago, Calkins led another crusade. He headed a drive to repeal an 18-year-old loyalty oath that Cleveland had required of all its school employees...
They were serious, for as national agitation rose among the working class for repeal of the amendment before the first dry day, July 1, 1919, the CRIMSON made only the slight concession that light wines and beers should be removed from...
...Junk. When Britain's Lord High Chancellor explained the statute repeal bill to the House of Lords last month, the scene was characteristically somnolent, with at least five peers asleep on their scarlet benches and a couple of others halfheartedly straining to hear the proceedings with old-fashioned black ear trumpets. But when the Lord Chancellor, Lord Gardiner, described the proposal as "a start towards getting rid of a lot of junk," his words rang like alarm bells. Leaping to his feet, Lord Leatherland cried: "I should hate historians of the future to say that Lord Gardiner...