Word: speedups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intended to bring quick success in 1) building a pure Communist state, and 2) making China over into a first-class world power. Instead, the Leap's frenzied mobilization of peasants into communes, the setting up of backyard blast furnaces, and the 24-hour-a-day speedup...
...Wrong Business." Wilkins predicted that "There will be no racial peace in the nation, in the South or in the North, until segregation and inequality are gone." The Negro timetable calls for a speedup in the integration process, and the N.A.A.C.P. intends to expand and intensify its efforts on all fronts. "The slow pace heretofore and the brazen cheating that has gone on in schooling, voting and employment especially, have forced the Negro to demand acceleration and still more acceleration . . . Law-enforcement officers will have to bring extra measures of understanding and restraint to this situation...
...speedup was to get the vaccines into doctors' hypodermic syringes in time for the March-through-May period when measles outbreaks come to a peak...
...heavier payments are the result of the complicated shuffle of tax payments necessary to adjust to the speedup. Under present rules, corporations do not begin paying taxes on the current year until September, and then continue paying them in quarterly installments through June of the following year. Under the new system, corporations will estimate their annual tax bill in April and make their first payment then; by year's end all the installments will have been paid. If the shift were made suddenly from the old to the new system, it would cause a doubling up of payments, raising...
...money aside in special funds for taxes, and would not in any case have spent the money for anything else. Many companies do not fit this model; they keep their tax money working in their businesses and borrow whatever they need to pay their tax installments. For them the speedup forces a choice of either borrowing more to make their payments-thus straining their credit ratings-or cutting into the working capital they need to operate their businesses. Either way, the tax "cut" will hardly put them in an immediate position to aid the economy with heavier capital spending...