Word: soaks
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That could lead to sweeping social changes in France, including adoption of a soak-the-rich taxation policy, and to a foreign policy cooler to the U.S. and NATO than even that of the Gaullists. The victory of a candidate representing a path between Gaullism and the left, as Faure or Giscard might, would mean French support for greater integration of the European Economic Community and closer relations with the U.S. Not until Frenchmen cast their ballots, however, can the question posed last week by Le Monde be answered: "Is this the second death of Gaullism...
While Healey did not soak the rich, he did get them a little wet. The basic corporate tax rate was raised from 50% to 52%, the basic income tax from 30% to 33%, with the burden falling heaviest on the biggest earners. Thus, a $25,000-a-year earner who had been paying roughly $8,000 a year in taxes will now pay about $500 more. Those earning $7,200 and under will pay marginally less. There will be heavier levies on luxuries such as liquor (48? more for a 26-oz. bottle of gin, to $6.24), cigarettes (12? more...
...schoolchildren of Anderson, Ind., have been advised by state health officials to go soak their heads -and in hot water, at that. By way of inducement, they got an extra 2½ days of Christmas holiday time. The city's entire system of 27 elementary and eight junior-high and high schools was shut down to combat a rampaging epidemic of a malady that is never fatal and seldom serious, but severely discomforting infestation with head lice...
Vellucci's crowd had converged into the Chez Marie Suite at Porter Square's Stephen James Restaurant to dance and soak up the free liquor...
...much defensively as we do offensively," Crimson coach Joe Restic said yesterday. While his multiple set offenses have been receiving all the publicity, Restic has molded an out-standing defensive unit. "It took three years for the system to soak in," he said, "and now that it has the results are evident...