Word: rising
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...With about 30 seconds to go I ran outside of the control room," he remembers. "I wanted to see it with my own eyes, and hear it, too. It lifted off, and I watched it rise up over the fields...
...billion to $20 billion in Treasury revenues. To avoid so great a loss, the Congressmen plan to have the program phased in over several years; they would allow business to reduce its taxes-and add to its investment capital -by about $5 billion next year, permitting the amount to rise to three times that much in 1982. Says Jones of the bill: "This will be the centerpiece of a business tax cut next year...
Congressional action on some or all of them may come quickly. The rates will probably be allowed to rise in steps over a period of years, and there is a good chance that small savers will start to get a fairer share before 1980 is very...
...clauses raises the minimum wage for field hands from $3 to $3.30 an hour, and Democratic Senator Russell Long of Louisiana argues that the provision would require an even higher level of price supports for growers. With that in mind, Idaho Democratic Senator Frank Church is pushing for a rise to 17? per Ib. Frets one industry lobbyist in Washington: "All this agitation for more subsidy is going to kill the goose that laid the golden egg." If so, it is about time...
Both Kennedy's and Carter's plans make a desperate stab at trying to control the alarming rise in health costs. Carter's assumes passage of the hospital cost containment bill and it might also require that the fees charged by physicians be negotiated by the Secretary of HEW and a board composed of consumers, insurers and health care representatives. In essence, Kennedy advocates giving the Government veto power over payment scales worked out on a state basis through bargaining among the insured, the insurances, the doctors and hospitals...