Word: taking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...middle income brackets, the restless majority recovering slowly in the wake of the recession. But the President is optimistic about business recovery; in fact, he is counting on it desperately to raise needed government revenue. In spite of this emerging bull market, however, he is strangely reluctant to take such measures as restoring the cut in the capital gains tax (which cost the government $4 billion in annual revenue) the Administration made four years...
...Soviets originally announced the rocket would take 447 days to circle the sun. Monday night they said there had been a minor miscalculation, that one revolution would take 450 days...
Marcel Ugols '61, of Lowell House, Paris, and Havana, business manager, David M. Landon '61, of Lowell House and New York City, circulation manager, and Mason D. Harris, Jr. '61, of Lowell House and Fitchburg, Bacchus, will also take office at the beginning of second semester...
...hypothesis that the Senate is not a continuing body is a reasonable one, nonetheless the belief that a majority of Senators on the floor has an indisputable hold on ultimate wisdom is not. Under the proposed change this second belief would take on the force of law. Thus, a liberal Senate minority--and there have been numbers of them--could be effectively silenced by what, at the moment, looks like a very liberal move. There is no guarantee that a simple majority of Senators on the floor of their chamber will always act wisely; there is, in fact...
Against New Hampshire in the play off for fifth place, the varsity again started slowly, and was behind, 32 to 23, at the half. Then, down 10 points with eight minutes remaining, the varsity rallied to take a slim lead two minutes from the finish. But the Wildcats came back to tie it up in the closing seconds...