Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nobody would ever see a check-and that, it turns out, is another problem. Says one Treasury official: "Some people have a feeling that if they don't touch the money, then the money's not really theirs." The Treasury would like to make all of its payments this way, including salaries of federal employees. But the Government estimates that EFT will be chosen by only 40% of the people on its many payrolls by 1980. The rest will put up with inconveniences just to get their hands on those familiar envelopes containing those welcome Government checks...
Approving the private use of pot, Chief Justice Jay Rabinowitz declared: "The state cannot impose its own notions of morality, propriety or fashion on individuals when the public has no legitimate interest in the affairs of those individuals." With a touch of frontier spirit and pride, Rabinowitz elaborated: "Our territory and now state has traditionally been the home of people who prize their individuality and who have chosen to live here in order to achieve a measure of control over their own life styles, which is now virtually unattainable in many of our sister states...
Separated. Glenda Jackson, 39, acid-etched British movie actress (Women in Love, A Touch of Class); and Roy Hodges, 46, her stage-director husband; after 17 years of marriage, one son. Jackson not only announced her divorce plans but also vowed she would never remarry: "The last four years of our marriage have been horrible...
...notes, "the purpose of heavier taxation at the top of the income and wealth scale is not to bring down the affluent, but to raise up the deprived." Thus unlike some egalitarians, he would not raise taxes on salary income, remove tax breaks for homeowners or even touch the investment tax credit for businesses. But, he points out, under present law wealthy taxpayers count only half their capital gains in calculating their taxable income; Okun would reduce or even eliminate that discount. He also favors tightening up on federal estate taxes, especially to wipe out "the generation-skipping trust...
...keep himself balanced between feelings of revulsion and respect for the men aboard this stifling tunnel of dead metal. He is adept at flattening his prose in the manner of much postwar German writing, creating an ironic though pat Götterdaämerung or adding a horrific touch of 1920s expressionism...