Word: soaks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...look for another scheme. Now Mr. Ford has pulled together a new package, in what The New York Times calls "a 179 degree turn in economic policy." Instead of a tax increase, he now suggests a tax rebate of $12.2 billion which, combined with a regressive fuel tax, will soak the poor, help the rich and leave the middle-class even worse off than before...
...Should Soak Up That Shower of Gold
...solely for printed matter, not handwritten letters, reads like a home remedy for a Watergate-induced headache: dissolve a milk of magnesia tablet in a quart of club soda and chill the solution overnight. Then pour it into a pan or tray large enough to accommodate a flattened newspaper, soak the newspaper for an hour...
...super-decree was actually a package of the most drastic anti-inflation measures any European government has attempted. Premier Mariano Rumor's government imposed them two weeks ago to control rampant inflation (currently 17% per year). The moves will soak up $4.8 billion and help redress Italy's massive balance-of-trade deficit, which has reached $1 billion per month...
...replica of an old Western town near Durango, Colo. No other bestselling author of westerns seems as well rooted in his material. After all, Zane Grey was a Manhattan dentist when he started to write, and Max Brand, when persuaded by his publishers to visit El Paso and soak up some color, hated it so much that he locked himself in his hotel room and read Sophocles...