Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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L.D.S. Indian Social Worker...
...clash and clangor of the 1959 session's biggest debate sounded in Congress last week as the Senate hammered out a labor-reform bill. That debate (see The Congress), despite its compromised outcome, marked a milestone in the U.S.'s social-economic history...
...autumn of 1958," admitted Finance Minister Li Hsien-nien, "there has been tension . . . owing to short supply of some non-staple foods and manufactured daily necessities in the cities." One of the chief causes of these "temporary difficulties," conceded Li, was the upheaval created by "such a great social change as the people's commune movement...
First Symptoms. These show up as early as two years after social drinking begins, form a syndrome that lasts about 12.5 years. The potential alcoholic first takes to sneaking drinks and downing doubles or triples while others are still at the one-drink stage. Soon he gets drunk whenever he drinks, even against his wishes. Next he thinks often about drinking, its balm to life's stresses, begins drinking through the weekend and taking Monday off from his job to recuperate. Though a doctor who knows him well may spot such telltale symptoms early, "all too often the patient...
...thing Mack did not do, said the Internal Revenue Service, was pay all his taxes, even though he withheld them from employees' salaries. He had not remitted $60,850 in withholding taxes, charged the tax collectors, or $1,042,355 in corporation, social security, and unemployment benefit taxes. Mack himself was slapped with claims for $132,240 in individual taxes. Padlocking a business in a "jeopardy assessment" is a rare step for the IRS, but the revenuers had failed to get enough tax money from Slenderella after two years of negotiations, decided to seize the assets while they were...