Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...possible alternative to the Administration and the industry proposals has been offered by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Russell Long. He proposes the creation of what amounts to an energy trust fund, under which the Government would impose a wellhead tax and then use the revenue to stimulate new exploration and development of alternative energy sources by the oil industry. Last week, however, the Finance Committee scissored the entire wellhead tax scheme out of the bill. Instead, it proposed a $32 billion package of tax credits and grants, to be financed directly by the Treasury, that would aid industry in converting...
...group devotes an hour to "initiative games" that take place in the open air. These specially designed athletic activities--with names like "The Regain" and "The High Wire Tension Traverse"--are designed to help the group learn to solve problems together, to aid in building a cohesive sense of trust among the students...
Charles J. Ogletree, a third-year Law School student and national chairman of the Black Law Students Association, told workshop participants it would be a mistake to trust the Supreme Court to defend minority rights...
...think of anything worse. If we'd listened to the likes of Mills and Dent, the trust would still be about $27 million...
Despite his pugnaciousness in business, Ball, a divorcee, seeks to present a personal air of courtliness, especially to women. As a manager, he leaves operating details to underlings and sticks close to - financial matters, stacking trust records in cardboard boxes in his office. He lives frugally, owns only four suits, and long ago he bought up a batch of cheap dime-store spectacles with progressively thicker lenses that he keeps in his office safe. After each working day, Ball holds court at his apartment, downing ginger ale and bourbon and spinning yarns for his cronies. It is a life that...