Word: slims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contrast, the characters in the Freshman Register seem, at first glance, to be clearly in the foreground. The invisible bureaucrats and administrators of Rules Relating had neither faces nor identities; this slim volume provides both, for nearly 1500 freshmen. And as much as Rules Relating and Courses of Instruction, this is a book with a purpose, a function that far outweighs its stylistic merits. Given, say, the name of a freshman, one can quickly determine where he lives, where he prepped and what field he intends to concentrate his college studies, and one can also get a reasonable idea...
...note says that the tax will not be included on the tuition worksheet "on the slim chance that we might be able to arrange for an exemption by September...
Jones said the chances of Boverini's bill passing the legislature were "slim" because the present state of the budget was "troubled." "Contract board is a great resource--the Governor and the Legislature are going to want to tap it," he added...
...Slim Chances. Democrats on the Ways and Means Committee last week objected strongly to Simon's emphasis on lowering corporate taxes. Said Chairman Al Ullman: "I just simply cannot adjust my thinking to a reduction of corporate rates that would shift the burden further to the individual taxpayers." Another criticism is that Simon's proposed reductions for individual taxpayers would make the tax system less progressive, by giving the biggest benefits to upper-income people, who own more stock and collect more dividends than individuals in the lower brackets...
Simon concedes that his program "is not good politics," and its chances of being adopted by the present liberal Democratic Congress are slim. Still, his proposal should stimulate public debate on a long-neglected issue: how to trigger a faster rate of capital accumulation that would enable the U.S. to finance the myriad private and public investments it must pay for in the next few years...