Word: staging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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King said the first stage of his three-part program to reduce taxes began February 9 when he introduced a bill to limit local taxes by "capping" city and town levies and expenditures at their fiscal 1979 levels. The remainder of the program will be unveiled February 28 when King releases his budget recommendations for fiscal...
...betting that a period of vicious inflation leading to mandatory price controls lies ahead, and are kicking up prices before the controls are imposed. Feeding these inflationary expectations are the gloomy forecasts of a number of alarmist economists who have been blowing taps for President Carter's voluntary Stage Two wage-price restraints almost from the moment they were announced last fall...
...prove that Stage Two is still very much alive, the White House inflation fighter, Alfred Kahn, has been busily talking up the program. Last week he called on shoppers to boycott retailers who could not explain stiff price increases. He also reported that so far 207 of the 500 largest corporations have agreed to go along with the price guidelines. None of the others, he announced, had as yet said, "To hell with...
...affinity with childhood - irrepressible, irresponsible, zany, sulky -brings out the best and the worst in Play wright Weller. His previous drama, Moonchildren, was a balloon flight through the gravityless '60s. In Loose Ends, now at Washington, D.C.'s Arena Stage, the characters are grounded in the '70s and undergo growing pains without discernibly growing...
...school. Says Air Force Lieut. Colonel Norman Mc-Daniel, a fellow P.O.W. of Stockdale's and now one of his students: "A lot of training in the military tells you how you should act, but it doesn't give you the why. We're at a stage of moving from responding to what other people tell us to do to having more choice." Not an easy concept for military men, but as Stockdale puts it, "No philosophical survival kits are issued" when man goes...