Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President had uttered stern words that might indeed burn for a time in labor's ears. But the fact was that in November, U.S. labor leaders will have little choice but to fall in behind him. Raymond Fahey, president of the International Union of Operating Engineers' Buffalo local, summed it up: "When the time comes, we'll go out and do everything we can for Johnson...
...Sixth Fleet (Mediterranean). Bill Ellis is a flyer's flyer, a tough combat pilot who has collected a chestful of ribbons that include the Navy Cross, the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal. The men and officers of the Sixth Fleet can expect a stern disciplinarian and a "hard charger." In fact, says one fellow officer ruefully, "He charges so hard sometimes that he steps on the feet of his subordinates...
...principal thing to be said about Philip Stern's book on tax loopholes is that it is a superb popularizaton. The term "popularization" has come to have an overtone of condescension that is often, as in this case, unjust. A good popularization takes facts or interpretations already known to the experts and makes them comprehensible and interesting to the lay reader. If the subject dealt with is of any importance, the popularizer performs an invaluable function--war is too important to be left to the generals...
...inequities Mr. Stern describes are well known to those familiar with the Code. The favorites of any good tax lawyer--percentage depletion for oil wells and clam shells*, the marital deduction, capital gains treatment for raisers of cattle and Christmas trees, stock options, and those marvelous fabrications, the real estate tax shelter and the collapsible corporation--all these are here, all are wittily and accurately dissected, all are outrageous. There is little more to be said about The Great Treasury Raid; those who are interested should read the book, those who are not will not be brought...
Every enterprise in Russia is watched and judged by the party. Its presence radiates from Moscow to the remotest district in the land, no longer holding its subjects with terror but with the stern and pious stare of orthodoxy...