Word: without
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President wanted an extension the 10% income tax surcharge as an anti-inflationary measure. He was notably less keen on tax reform at this time. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield warned the President that he could not have the surtax without reform?and managed to impose this view on Finance Chairman Russell Long, a Louisiana Democrat to whom 27½% oil-depletion allowance is most precious the reform-bill cuts the allowance to 20%). As Senate Democrats were squabbling, however, Long's House counterpart, Ways and Means Chairmen Wilbur Mills, who cherishes the House's constitutional prerogative to originate revenue measures...
This family would be allowed $720 in earned income without suffering any reduction in the maximum federal subsidy of $1,600. (The $720 constitutes what the government considers the cost of working, such as transportation, clothes and lunches, for a year.) For a family of four, the descending scale of federal subsidy-apart from any state payment-would work this...
...many states, the present AFDC laws bar aid to families with able-bodied fathers in the home. For many of these men, who are either unemployed or have low-paying jobs, there is only one choice. They desert their families. Nixon's program would provide for such families without encouraging the father to leave. It would authorize relief for 12,400,000 needy Americans who now get none...
...categories will cost the Treasury $2.4 billion. Only three-quarters of the time allocated for floor debate was used. Constituent mail has been running so strongly in favor of the measure that few Congressmen were willing to face next year's elections without a safe position on the issue...
...Without Jury. In Massachusetts the inquest is a seldom-used procedure, normally held in private before a district judge who calls witnesses one by one to testify under oath. Reporters, however, will be admitted this time. Such a hearing is "not accusatory," and if no evidence of criminality is found, no further proceeding need follow. But if a judge does find fault, such as negligence, his report is passed on to a grand jury and could then lead to a criminal process. The inquest itself has no jury and no provision for cross-examination of witnesses...