Word: sams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...program makes some bows to liberal ideology. It gives the most generous income tax reductions to people with taxable incomes of less than $15,000 a year, on the theory that they need help most and will spend every cent that Uncle Sam lets go of, rather than put their tax savings in the bank. Carter also proposes a modest innovation: $400 million this year to companies that hire hard-to-employ workers (details to come in March). The reasoning is that an expanding economy does not automatically reduce unemployment among the groups most plagued by joblessness; employers who need...
Jimmy Carter can't call Tip O'Neill, like Harry Truman could call Sam Rayburn, and tell him to get up 200 votes. Everyone feared we Americans were going to become a homogenized people, and yet here we are with this tremendous diversity That's not bad, but we can't reach consensus like we used to. That makes it difficult to make decisions...
...Supreme Court, which reversed the state court decision because blacks had been unconstitutionally excluded from the jury. From 1940 to 1969, Leibowitz served as criminal court judge in Brooklyn. He advocated reinstating capital punishment and because of the harsh, frequently controversial penalties he imposed, won the nickname "Sentencing Sam...
...with an Italian company, it is dredging parts of the Suez Canal. In 1976 Redec's revenues were more than $1 billion. Apart from his banking interests, Pharaon owns a substantial share of International Systems, a modular-housing firm in Mobile, Ala., and is the largest shareholder in Sam P. Wallace Co., a Dallas-based mechanical contracting firm...
Unlike Eastwood, Reynolds yearns to break away from genre projects (White Lightning, Sam Whiskey, W. W. and the Dixie Dance Kings, to name a few), and he is now looking for ambitious ideas and first-rate scripts. He does not like seeing them end up in the hands of others. Two pictures that he "would have killed for," Blume in Love and A Touch of Class, went to George Segal. Reynolds wants to use his box-office power to fight back. Says he: "I'm not sorry I'm bankable. It means I can get what I want...