Word: restrictions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...alphabet-minded Washington dubbed it. It would place a 50% ceiling on the amount of a taxpayer's income above $10,000 that is eligible for favored treatment. Income would have to include the appreciated value of property donated to charity, and the ceiling would restrict the amount of deductions that a taxpayer could take for 1) oil-depletion allowances and intangible drilling costs, 2) excessive farm losses, and 3) rapid depreciation of real estate holdings. Nixon would also require taxpayers with more than $10,000 of tax-preferred income (including long-term capital gains) to allocate itemized nonbusiness...
Before a highly partisan audience of 500 people the Cambridge School Committee defeated yesterday a motion to restrict major administrative positions in the school system to Cambridge teachers...
...tone of your recent article on the dangers of cholesterol [Jan. 10] shocked me. The ultimate civil liberty in a democratic society is the power over one's own life and death, and I cannot see why the Government should restrict cholesterol any more than it restricts equally "lethal" alcohol and tobacco. Let us have a program of education, by all means, but allow us to "choose our poison." You may have nicotine, and I'll take bacon and butter...
...coalesce into political blocs that can impose vetoes on action. The farm lobby has prevented any realistic reappraisal of U.S. agricultural policies. Lyndon Johnson commanded the nearly undivided support of labor throughout his Administration, but he was unable to persuade the craft unions to modify their apprenticeship rules, which restrict the expansion of skills in the labor force and are, in effect, a racial bar. The business community has shown a belated but increasing interest in training "un-employables." However, in matters of air and water pollution created by industry many individual corporations continue to evade their responsibility for these...
That warning was Eastern's way of pressing for changes in FAA restrictions on airport traffic scheduled to go into effect in April. Aimed at relieving air congestion in the Chicago-New York-Washington "Golden Triangle," the restrictions affect operations at five airports -New York's John F. Kennedy and La Guardia, Newark, Washington's National and Chicago's O'Hare. Eastern objects to an FAA proposal that would rigidly limit takeoffs and landings by all commercial and private planes to 60 an hour at Newark and La Guardia. That would restrict its ability...