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Another poem commented on the unpopularity of America's involvement in Southeast Asia by invoking the image of Kilroy, a fictitious mascot of American forces whose name appeared as scrawled graffitti throughout Europe and Korea but who became conspicuous by his absence from Vietnam. "Kilroy is absent without leave from Vietnam," McCarthy read, and the impact of the poem's message moved the audience to applause...
SICK PAY loses its role as "the workingman's tax shelter." Previously, a worker owed no tax on as much as $100 a week-$5,200 a year-of money that he received while he was absent from the job because of injury or illness. Now, such pay is taxed as heavily as the income a worker earns when he is healthy. The only exception is payments to people under 65 who are totally and permanently disabled-and in some cases even they may not qualify. Making matters worse, many employers did not withhold tax from paychecks mailed...
...apparent that, until recently, human sexual pluralism has remained absent from our history texts. The achievements of women, black people and other groups have remained obscure through a similar process of selective attention. The manipulation of facts in order to fit preconceived stereotypes (categorical prejudgment) is described by Gordon Allport in his study of prejudice. The very term homosexual often elicits negative feelings (or perhaps nervous giggles) among otherwise sophisticated people...
Conspicuously absent from the document is an extended discussion of the controversial dean of the GSD, Maurice D. Kilbridge, an ex-Business School professor who took over the then-divided and financially lagging GSD in the late 1960s...
...dispute. McLaughlin and Danehy say county commissioners can have their executive assistants act in meetings as surrogates for them, provided that a majority of the board approves this provisional transfer of voting power every year. Ralph interprets the law to mean that an executive assistant can act for an absent commissioner only if the remaining two commissioners authorize him to do so, and that this authorization must be renewed for each meeting. If Ralph is correct, then many of the meetings held in the last two years have been illegal, for he has not consented to transfer anyone's power...