Word: saves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when Beame was losing his first mayoralty race to John Lindsay, Barrett published his first and only novel, The Mayor of New York. Its protagonist, Barrett's fictional mayor, was forced from office after proposing an unsuccessful master plan to save his financially hard-pressed city...
...when the city was going to chop the rest of the deficit, year by year. Instead, Beame presented a nine-page outline. Among other things, he proposed to trim thousands of more employees through attrition, continue the wage freeze for two more years, and try to save on equipment purchases, building rentals and capital construction. But to the dismay of the board members, many of them top businessmen, the document was maddeningly vague...
Ford said his proposal would save companies and individuals $28 billion, "the biggest single tax cut in our history." Yet the claim was deceptive. Ford's figures were based on the 1974 permanent rates, which did not take into account the projected impact of the temporary cut now in effect. The present rates would have produced a $17 billion reduction in taxes next year. Thus, in reality, the Ford cut would amount to $11 billion, which would translate into an increase of $2 to $8 in the typical wage earner's weekly paycheck...
Although nobody wants to quarrel with energy savings; there were some grumblings last week when Dean Rosovsky announced that a comprehensive energy shut-down that can save $150,000 must include the libraries, museums and athletic facilities...
...Roxbury Tenants of Harvard, the developer and future owner of the housing, moved quickly after White spoke against the plant, apparently notifying state, local and even federal politicians that the housing was in trouble and that White must change his mind by the next board meeting in order to save the project...