Word: solicit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hidden Subsidy. In 1950, only 202 publications enjoyed tax-exempt status; today, 700 periodicals, ranging from the National Geographic to Knitted Outerwear Times, are spared taxation. Educational some may be, but what upsets the congressional critics is the fact that a growing number of such publications solicit advertising in direct competition with taxpaying magazines. And since tax exemption effectively enlarges income, it amounts to a hidden subsidy that allows the tax-exempt magazines to cut their prices for ad space...
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...committee also planned to solicit funds from the members and parents of the HRO. But because of the high turnoaer of people in the orchestra this year, the plan provided only negligible revenue...
Quick Controversy. The hearing was called to gather information for a pending bill that would make it a crime, punishable by up to 20 years in prison, to give, solicit or advocate the giving of material aid to "any hostile foreign power"-North Viet Nam, for instance -or to impede the movements of U.S. military personnel and materiel. Some protest groups have collected funds to buy medical supplies for Vietnamese Communists, and on a few occasions have attempted to block troop trains-acts that would be treasonable in war time but are difficult to punish legally in peacetime. Chairman...
...left that have managed to survive have made it on their own. Now, to better their condition, five of them are banding together in something called the Underground Press Syndicate, a vague alliance through which they hope to exchange articles, columns and cartoons, hire one agency to solicit advertising for all of them, and divide up all income. The five...