Word: transfers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...program's major innovation -and the feature that will arouse the most opposition-is the use of general tax revenues to fund the system. Until now, Social Security has been financed solely by payroll taxes, on the theory that it is an insurance plan, not an income transfer plan. Under the Carter program, the Social Security system would dip into ordinary tax revenues -which come mostly from business and personal income taxes-if the unemployment rate rises above 6%. When it does, the amount that is considered "lost" to the system because of reduced payroll taxes would be made...
...program's faculty committee accepted eight of its 14 applicants, leaving two spaces open for transfer students and other fall term applicants, Graham said...
Last week U.S. and British diplomats were working on a new approach that would guarantee transfer of power to blacks while offering whites financial inducements to stay on. The proposals may be presented at a Rhodesian constitutional conference, either in London or somewhere in Africa, possibly in June. The U.S.-British joint plan differs from Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's ill-fated program in one key respect: the makeup of an interim caretaker government will be tackled only after the question of a constitution for majority-ruled Zimbabwe (as blacks call Rhodesia) has been settled...
Nair won $175 for delivering part of Jocasta's speech from a modern adaptation of Seneca's Oedipus. A transfer student from Delhi University, she won first prize in a nationwide speech contest in India...
Sociologically, Playwright Eichman is most astute in suggesting that the transfer of power from the Boston "blue-bloods" to the Irish Catholic majority has actually accentuated New England's narrow puritan ethic. As Ned ("Scooter") Ryan, Dzundza viscerally endows the prosecuting attorney with the instincts of a fox in a hen coop. Always grave and commanding in presence, Earle Hyman has to wait to the end of the play to deliver the doctor's passion ate plea for the right of a woman to terminate her own pregnancy...