Word: undoings
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...amendment would undo almost a decade of egalitarian tax reform. The basic rule on capital gains has long been, and still is, that only half of them are subject to income tax; until 1969, the maximum tax on capital gains was 25%. But beginning in 1970, liberals who considered that tax rate to be an undue favor to the rich raised the maximum tax on the biggest capital gams reaped by individuals to 49.1%,* by far the highest rate in the industrial world; the top rate on corporate capital gains is 30%. Steiger would set the clock back to 1969?...
...snag that threatened to undo the tattered treaty was a reservation to the first pact that had slipped by supporters even though they had been on the alert for "killer amendments" that might make it unacceptable to Panama. Sponsored by Dennis DeConcini, 40, a freshman Democratic Senator from Arizona, the reservation would give the U.S. the right to send troops into Panama if the canal was ever closed, or even if there was any interference with its operations, like a strike...
...decade ago, when the U.S. finally agreed to let some 500 Micronesians return to their native island of Bikini, Washington officials determined to undo the damage inflicted by 23 nuclear tests. All sorts of debris was scooped off the beaches and dumped out at sea. Swaths of local jungle were cleared so that some 50,000 new coconut trees could be planted. Forty cement houses were built along the shore of the lagoon, and an Atomic Energy Commission spokesman declared that there was "virtually no radiation left." After a generation of exile, the first 100 of the Bikini islanders contentedly...
...wanted to discount it, and the Soviet Union to put an end to it because Syria had suffered a setback in spite of the presence of Soviet military experts and I had a victory in spite of the expulsion of Soviet military experts. And Israel, of course, wanted to undo our victory...
...chips are used to compose music, draw Op artistic pictures and write poems. They will never be Marvells or undo Donne?but they are trying. Poet-Novelist Carol Spearin Mc-Cauley notes in her book Computers and Creativity (Praeger) that the well-programmed computer is freed from "the confines of English grammar, syntax and common usage ... The machine's lack of shame, so to speak, frees it to express many things that a writer, by habit used to excluding or censoring the ungrammatical, awkward or ambiguous, would not consider." Marie Boroff, an English professor at Yale, acted as muse...