Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that benefited one group created an alleged inequity that another group could exploit to win favors for itself. But as these goodies removed more and more income from taxation, rates had to be kept high on those luckless -- or politically impotent -- souls whose earnings did not qualify for special treatment...
...repeatedly got hung up, mostly on what Rostenkowski / defined simply as the question of "who benefits and who pays." Many of the legislators had pet industries whose breaks they fought bitterly to protect. One example: Gephardt, of all people, supported Republican Senator John Danforth in arguing for continued special treatment of the profits of defense contractors (some of the biggest are based in their home state, Missouri...
...Administration unveiled its ambitious "Operation Alliance," designed to crack down on drug trafficking and dealing, other antidrug crusaders were touting education and treatment as the key weapons in the drug war. In the Baltimore area, officials announced plans for expanded drug- awareness programs in local schools and a "crack" hot line to aid users of the new, highly potent form of cocaine...
...children they rule the sandlot and playground. While most kids pray they are not the last picked by the shirts or the skins, it is the natural athletes who do the choosing. Late in high school, the best are wooed by colleges offering scholarships, special treatment and maybe a nice set of wheels. A happy few make the jump from big man on campus to major-league pro. Most start with salaries in six figures -- not bad for a 22-year-old who, chances are, did not earn enough credits to graduate. In the popular imagination, the great pros...
...missionary medicine man has been using a crude version of the police stun gun, a weapon more commonly employed to subdue emotionally disturbed suspects. He says that lives have also been saved by tapping power from the outboard motor of a canoe. Though snakebite experts say Guderian's treatment defies explanation, as word of his shocking cure has spread, pilots, missionaries and mining-company employees have begun carrying stun guns into the jungle...