Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...BEST REMEDY for an ailing economy might be a stiff tax on oil--similar to the one extolled by presidential candidate Rep. John B. Anderson (R Ill.) and Harvard Business School professor Daniel Yergin--coupled with a social security tax cut for individuals and investment tax credits for business so that depreciation schedules might be used to better advantage. The gas tax acts as a disincentive to profligate oil consumption, while the additional disposable income afforded by a reduction in the regressive social security tax allows consumers the type of choice that supply-side economists and Republicans say has been...
...barrier and refused to start. Thatcher, who made his driving debut just one year ago, was unhurt but thoroughly crushed and teary-eyed. The London press was not sympathetic: STOP SNIVELLING, MARK-YOU'RE A BIG BOY NOW, scolded a Daily Express headline. In Britain, one expects a stiff upper lip trom the son of the "Iron Lady...
...leaders may be forced to demand greater discipline and more sacrifices from the population. Such policies will present hazards for any new regime. Soviet elite -members of the party, favored intelligentsia, and so on-could become politically disenchanted with any government that severely restricts their perks. Stiff labor discipline, cutbacks on wage increases and higher prices for consumer staples could lead to popular unrest-as they have in Poland and other East bloc satellites. In sum, the most probable forecast for the Soviet Union's next generation of leaders is stormy weather ahead...
...Soviet students are slotted into distinct scholastic groups; only one of every five applicants wins entry into one of the country's 63 universities or 800 technical institutes. Competition is especially stiff for the top universities of Moscow and Leningrad and the Institute of Foreign Relations. To help get their children through the rigorous entrance exams, many parents hire private tutors at five rubles ($7.65) an hour. Others bribe admissions officers. In a case reported by Izvestiya last month, the woman in charge of a scientific prep school in Tomsk got an eight-year prison sentence for selling admissions...
...curriculum is stiff and compulsory. On the average, two mathematics courses are required in each grade (including heavy doses of geometry and algebra, plus a year or two of calculus in the final grades). And 5½ years of biology, five years each of physics and geography, four years of chemistry, one year of astronomy, ten years of shop and mechanical drawing and up to seven years of foreign language (most frequently English and French). Apart from languages, the humanities are largely taken up with the detailed study of Marxism-Leninism. Zoya Malkova, the director of the Institute for General...