Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...auditors disallowed $1,245,247 of his deductions for business expenses and charitable contributions, added $146,229 to his taxable income for foreign-exchange gains and charged him additional gift taxes of approximately $83,000 for 1972,1973 and the first half of 1974. The effect of the settlement was to raise Rockefeller's federal taxes for the five years by 21%, from $4,212,974 to $5,109,147. During those years, his total income was about $20 million...
Flanigan had also played a role in ITT's favorable 1971 antitrust settlement by getting a former White House intern to produce an analysis that supported the corporation's position...
They were omens of larger troubles ahead: it is an unmistakable fact that the mood on both sides in the Middle East imbroglio has shifted noticeably since Kissinger negotiated disengagement in the Sinai and on the Golan Heights earlier this year. The momentum for peaceful settlement has somehow ground to a halt. The belief-or hope-that "Dr. Henry" could work miracles has to a large extent vanished...
...while foreign aid allotment has been stalled by a foot-dragging pro-Israel Senate. "If Kis singer cannot deliver even on those pe ripheral matters," one Sadat aide told TIME'S Wynn last week, "can we ex pect him to deliver on the really big issue, the peace settlement...
...four-man plane flying north over the Gulf of St. Lawrence, over icebergs ten stories high, heading from Boston to an Indian settlement 50 miles south of the Labrador border. Two months earlier, the man flying the plane had told me about towns along the north shore of the Gulf, isolated fishing villages unconnected by roads of any sort, abandoned in the wilds of the Canadian sub-Arctic. And he told me about a program that he had started in 1961 through which people spent summers in these towns, teaching vital skills that no one up there knew...