Word: groups
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...reduction, including faster depreciation and a two-point drop in corporate taxes. Such measures, said the chamber's chief economist, Richard Rahn, "should greatly increase the supply of savings, and that is a very positive program." By contrast, Robert McIntyre of Ralph Nader's Tax Reform Research Group is wary of faster depreciation and wants payroll taxes cut. Says he: "We think it would be a relatively progressive tax cut. It would go to working people mostly, though it would go to business...
When Reagan withdrew from the 1976 race he still had about $1 million remaining in his campaign fund. Instead of returning the money to the donors, he used it to organize and underwrite the Citizens for the Republic Political Action Committee. This group's stated purpose: "To promote conservative Republican candidates and promote conservative views." In the 1978 election campaign, Reagan used the C.F.T.R. as the primary source for the $615,000 that he handed out to 25 candidates for the U.S. Senate, 234 for the House, 19 for governorships and 122 others seeking offices ranging from Lieutenant Governor...
...main thrust occurred at the two border camps just north of Aranyaprathet. The camps, at Non Mak Mun and Nong Chan, had long been a source of annoyance to the Vietnamese. Non Mak Mun was the headquarters of a Khmer Serei group known as the National Liberation Front of Cambodia. Nong Chan was the main dispersal point for the "land bridge" program, operated by international relief agencies, that distributed rice, seed and other supplies inside Cambodia. The camps were also the sites of huge jungle black markets, where smugglers bought sarongs, watches, cigarettes and other consumer goods for resale...
...last week a right-wing hit squad walked into a San Salvador restaurant at breakfast time and gunned down three young men. Another day, it was the left's turn. Members of the Ejército Popular de Liberación Faribundo Martí, the most active guerrilla group, executed 17 former members of the notorious paramilitary organization ORDEN in the village of San Francisco Morazán. Said a San Salvador journalist: "If you are not on the leftists' death list, you are surely on the rightists' list. There is no middle ground in this country...
...labor law puts employers in a tenuous situation. That is we would like to sit down and talk with the group, but that would constitute a type of recognition," Cantor explains...