Word: vow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bolster business confidence is to push urgently ahead on complete tax reform. The Administration is already committed to rewrite, so as to give business a better tax break, the depreciation schedules on industrial equipment. It has promised such a revision by July 6. and it can deliver on that vow by executive action, without the approval of Congress. Far more important is overall tax reform, which would plug the loopholes in the present code and lower :he rates on both the personal income tax and the corporation tax. The tax reform bill was originally promised...
...increasingly important arm of the Catholic Church in Spain is Opus Dei, a semisecret lay order whose members vow obedience, poverty and chastity, and have reached every level of official and intellectual life in Spain. The organization has no stated political goals, except to maintain the church's influence in any government that rules. Opus Dei is no particular ally of the regime, but three members are in Franco's Cabinet, including Commerce Minister Ullastres. They tend to be highly conservative in politics, strongly liberal in economics...
...Whim of the Pope. A cardinal, according to an old Roman riddle, is a whim of the Pope; he must vow absolute obedience to the will of the man who holds the See of St. Peter, must get explicit papal permission to leave Rome or its suburbs. But a cardinal is also, next to the Pope, the most privileged and the most powerful cleric in the Roman Catholic Church. As one of the most spectacular dressers of Christendom, he has to lay out at least $3,000 for his cassocks and skullcaps of scarlet and purple* (which are worn during...
Five Good Days a Year. The only religion that works for Williams is his writing, and he practices it four hours a day, day in, day out, year in, year out, as if he had taken a vow of discipline...
...mythical context, but too many possible pairs will fit. Does the woman try to hold the man back, or is she pressing him forward? X and A cannot resolve the ambiguity. Then M approaches to reveal that they are looking at Charles III and his wife taking the marriage vow; their dress is merely a convention. M talks on rather haughtily, and an incidental statement of his provides the bridge back to reality--the cardgame. X's voice finishes the statue anecdote, while the scene shifts from the cards to him and A: they walk outside and find the statue...