Word: ticket
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...most sharply debated aspect of the program is whether a rebate will increase demand enough to boost the economy substantially. Critics contend that it will require a big permanent reduction in individual income taxes, not a mere $50 per person, to persuade consumers to buy big-ticket items such as major household appliances, cars and houses. Government economists insist that the rebates should be enough to boost demand, lift production and put more people to work. Moreover, the rebate has the advantage of being temporary, and the Administration has no intention of permanently losing current tax revenue that could later...
Neruda re-entered the political arena in 1969 to run on the C.P. ticket for president of Chile. He withdrew his nomination in favor of the Popular Unity Party candidate, his friend Salvador Allende. Allende's victory began Chile's revolution that would end so tragically three years later with the help of the Kissingers and Nixons. But while it lasted it represented to Neruda hope, decency and humanity...
...Santa Ana, Calif., took her Las Vegas vacation money and used it for the Inauguration instead. Said she: "I would have lost it in Vegas anyway." Then there was the group of maids from Detroit, Tulsa, New York and Tallahassee who could not afford the $25 for a ticket to one of the seven big Inaugural Night parties. They put on a party of their own at the Northwest Gardens Restaurant, at $5 a head, complete with the Last Sunset rock and soul band...
Other less traumatic mix-ups are bound to arise as Americans trade in their historic furlongs, acres, bushels and pecks for the more rational, if less poetic meters, hectares and liters. Some conversions, though, will be learned more quickly than others: getting a traffic ticket for driving 50 miles per hour in a 50 kilometer-per-hour zone will probably help drivers adjust to the new system. And a few changes will be happy ones. Leon Jaroff, editor of the Science and Medicine sections, reminds us that "if your weight is 166 lbs., the scale will read only 76 kilograms...
...Dowry. Reluctance to abolish the dowry is more than a matter of male chauvinist greed. Says Bruce Lansdale, an American sociologist who has lived in Greece for 30 years: "The dowry is just as important as birth and death in Greek family life. For some girls it is a ticket off the farm to the big city. These days, if a farmer saves enough to buy an apartment in the city, it becomes the daughter's dowry and attracts a young engineer, mechanic or construction worker." But for a poor parent with many daughters, it has always been...