Word: standard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...House bill as a guide, the Finance Committee removed 5,200,000 low-income taxpayers from the tax rolls entirely, and voted rate reductions averaging 5% for those in all but the highest income categories by 1972. It also approved an increase in the 10% or $1,000 standard deduction now claimed by most taxpayers, lifting it by stages to a new maximum...
Whatever the results of the election, New York's party system will never be the same. Most liberal politicians have deserted their party's standard-bearers to support Lindsay. These include Herman Badillo and Percy Sutton, Democrat boroughpresidents of the Bronx and Manhattan and New York's Republican Senators, Charles Goodell and Jacob Javits...
...hope that when you print this letter you will return to your normal typesetting standard instead of having no standard...
...says that education is the key to the city's problems. "If you could educate kids then they could compete with the outside people for jobs in the NASA plant and the other projects." Instead of driving the poor out of the city these new developments would raise their standard of living...
...middle-aged executive recently got that big break-a promotion that transferred him from a branch office in Washington, D.C., to company headquarters in Manhattan. His professional leap forward sharply set back his personal standard of living. For the first time in his life, he cannot buy a house or rent an apartment that fits both his means and his expectations. He moved out of a $400-a-month, eleven-room house in the capital; he is willing to pay $600 for less space in an area that has commendable schools and is not more than one hour...