Word: stanchly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...provisions favoring special groups or special individuals that run counter to our notions of tax fairness." Commissioner of Internal Revenue Mortimer Caplin has long yearned to cut taxes from 91% to 65% in the highest brackets, and from 20% to 10% in the lowest brackets, chinking loopholes to stanch the loss. Walter Heller, the President's chief economic adviser, would cut the maximum rate to 60%, reduce the lowest rates from 20% to 14%. All three oppose what Heller calls "upsidedown subsidies," such as oil and mining depletion allowances and stock dividend exemptions...
...rebuilt their economy after World War II. But they have been annoyingly frugal about giving out any, even though their coffers have been filling with gold at the rate of $1 billion a year while U.S. reserves are shrinking. Last week, under heavy pressure from the U.S. to help stanch the drain on U.S. gold, West Germany finally agreed to ante up. After a chat between Kennedy and West German Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano, the West Germans announced a long-range foreign aid program of about $1 billion a year...
...tests show that a patient's clotting time is not unduly prolonged, they say, the surgeon can go ahead, using special techniques to stanch bleeding and to su ture the wound tightly. Oral Surgeon Behrman had one case in which he removed nine teeth, plus a section of the gum, without undue bleeding. Surgeons in other fields have found that it is safer to keep a patient on anticoagulants even for such radical operations as amputating a limb, removing a lobe of a lung, or working inside the heart itself to free a hardened mitral valve. In most...