Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After this kind of treatment at other schools, when Harvard sends you a postcard at the most and gives you the impression that it just might accept you if you're lucky, most high-school ballplayers fall for the wine-and-dine routine. When prospective footballers do visit Harvard, they are put up on the couch of whoever gets stuck with them and are fed in the dining halls. If you had a choice between Tournedos du Boeuf or Polynesian meatless balls, which would you choose...
...with that will be an adequate proposal for tax reform." Unfortunately, he felt compelled to add that the tax reform would be "comprehensive." That only muddied the waters, for many a businessman concluded that meant the President would persist in his hopes to eliminate or sharply reduce preferential tax treatment for capital gains, and a number of other benefits...
Nothing unnerves businessmen more than the Carter proposal to toughen the treatment of capital gains, and tax them at the same rates as salary income. Such a change would further hamper capital investment, which is crucial to economic progress and job creation. This centerpiece of the tax program is the most likely to be deferred. Yet Carter will probably attempt to raise taxes on income earned abroad by subsidiaries of U.S. corporations and on export earnings of companies that set up domestic international sales corporations. He may try to pare deductions for gasoline taxes, sales taxes and medical expenses...
...feuds with local political writers, charging unfair treatment. At times, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, which supported Spellman during the election, does seem to delight in baiting her. Publishers have also felt her wrath; she refused to meet again with some after they failed to stand when she entered the room?"not for me, but for the office...
...treatment of sex is also slanted in favor of the young; indeed, the Tuesday night sitcoms are a giddy celebration of post-pubescent horniness. The kids of Happy Days are always trying to score with cheerleader types; the appealingly libidinous roommates of Three's Company spend so much time trying to turn their platonic ménage à trois into an orgy that the show has the dizzy ambience of a junior high coed slumber party. Adults do not have nearly as much fun. On Soap and Three's Company, impotent middle-aged characters are the butts...