Word: threats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter's threat to veto any bill that lowers the capital gains rate is widely thought to be a bluff, but if positions continue to harden, he may make good on his threat. That could be calamitous. Congress almost certainly will pass some sort of cut in capital gains, but vetoing the entire bill just for this would hurt the economy. On Jan. 1, taxpayers face some $6.6 billion in additional Social Security levies and the expiration of about $11.5 billion in temporary income tax cuts enacted during the Ford Administration. Unless the resulting tax increases are offset...
...owner for 25 years of L'Aiglon restaurant in Manhattan, and one of those beleaguered by the President's threat to crack down on taxdeductible, expense-account lunches, I have a question: Who paid for those Margaritas? I would have been happy...
...blacks was expressed in an Atlanta speech by the Rev. Jesse Jackson. "The tax rebellion is now being used as the new code word-like busing and Bakke-for racism and classism," he told a national P.T.A. convention. The revolt, he claimed later, may prove to be "the greatest threat the black middle class has ever known...
...They plan to ask the courts in New Jersey to keep him from regaining his union power, if he manages to leave prison, where he could spend the rest of his life. Moreover, Tony Pro may encounter the vengeance of Mafia leaders. But FBI officials believe that even the threat of death would not persuade Tony Pro to tell them about the Hoffa case. Said one investigator: "Pro has many faults -but talking isn't one of them...
...reason for his dismay was the threat of a new political crisis that hit Italy just as the country was recovering from the tragic kidnaping and murder of former Premier Aldo Moro. Appearing on national television last week in the midst of World Cup soccer telecasts, white-thatched President Giovanni Leone, 69, a 34-year Christian Democratic political veteran and two-time former Premier, informed his "fellow Italians" in a heavy Neapolitan accent that he was resigning from the presidency...