Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...begun, however cautiously, to risk offending some of those who elected him. Negroes are still suspicious, but many Southern whites who voted Republican in November are unhappy about the Administration's school-integration policy. Last week Nixon went against the advice of some senior aides in recommending repeal of the 7% business-investment tax credit as part of his tax package (see BUSINESS). Repeal of the credit is primarily an anti-inflationary measure, but the predominantly Republican business community will pay the bill. The President's other tax proposals-reducing the burden on the poor, halving the surcharge...
Balanced Impact. Despite considerable grumbling among businessmen, repeal of the 7% investment tax credit seems almost sure to win congressional approval. Once a supporter of the tax credit, Nixon changed his mind last month after surveys showed that corporate spending on new plant and equipment was heading for an inflationary 14% gain this year. Its immediate repeal is intended to make a slowdown in actual corporate spending mesh with the time next year when a lowered tax surcharge would give consumers more pocket money...
...enrolled and overcrowding is becoming explosive. Many priests oppose their bishops on the issue of contraception, partly because the newly urbanized faithful can scarcely afford the large families that were an asset on the farm. As more and more women take jobs, they increasingly demand equal rights, including repeal of the old law that prescribes prison for adulterous women...
...Bartlesville, Okla., project lasted nine months. Other projects were quickly aborted in New York City and Chicago. Fee-vee's most promising and disheartening trial came in Los Angeles. Just as the operation seemed to be catching on, the broadcasters and film exhibitors forced a repeal referendum onto the 1964 California ballot. Then, with a war chest of reportedly $2,000,000, they mounted an ad campaign that convinced the voters to vote no. Two years later, the U.S. Supreme Court declared the referendum illegal, but by then the California fee-vee company had gone bankrupt...
...most helped Agnew to govern successfully, has the inside track on replacing him. In fact, Agnew may even quietly urge Maryland's 33 G.O.P. legislators (v. 152 Democrats) to support Mandel, who helped him to enact income tax reform and an open-housing bill as well as to repeal Maryland's antimiscegenation law. A quiet veteran of 17 years in the legislature, Mandel appoints all house committees, signs all bills, and presides over its sessions with a composure that only rarely abandons him (he has bitten through half a dozen pipestems, broken two gavels during tense moments...