Word: giveaway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...finally worked out, the bill was far more sober than the free-spending "Christmas tree" measure conjured up by the Senate, with its $800 personal tax exemption. While it is more inflationary than President Nixon would like, the bill does postpone most of the giveaway provisions for two years, the period that Nixon considers crucial in the fight against inflation. Nixon is thus expected to accept the compromise...
...rich or poor). I think we ought to help the poor indiscriminately." GOVERNMENT PRIVILEGES. "All over the world, the predominant source of great increases in private fortunes over the past several decades has been Government privileges." For example, the issuance of radio-TV licenses is "an enormous giveaway of valuable capital sums to individuals who are not low-income people." Friedman also holds that the Federal Communications Commission should auction TV channels to the highest bidder and thereafter stay out of the picture...
...opposition weekly, the Badger Herald, promised at first to keep its news columns free of advocacy, but swung quickly to the right to reflect the views of its founders, the Young Americans for Freedom. After 93 years of campus monopoly, the Daily Princetonian is being challenged by an offset giveaway called the Princeton Notice, which veers erratically from left to right. M.I.T. now boasts no fewer than five campus papers representing virtually all shades of the student political spectrum...
...major sporting events, both pick-purses and Yardmen are well represented. "The greatest danger for the thieves," says the inspector, "is that they are complete creatures of habit. The raincoats are a giveaway. They use them to cover a mark's pocket while they work inside." Arno keeps up with industry trends around the world. Some random observations...
...shake a few of them quite plainly: things such as, we spend twenty times as much on pet food in this country than we do on the food stamp program." He shrugged his shoulders and continued. "Then the only gripes you ever hear are that there are too many giveaway programs for the poor...