Word: majority
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Neighborhood activists have termed the case a major test of community-University relations. "It has become a symbol to people in the neighborhoods," City Councilor David Sullivan said recently...
...also a major test of the city's removal ordinance, which is slightly more than a year old. Designed primarily to thwart condominium developers, the ordinance requires board approval before taking a rent-controlled property off the rental market...
Almost as bad would be the selection for Secretary of State of former Nixon chief of staff and NATO commander Alexander Haig. Haig's role in Watergate remains an open question; a man with questions of that sort in his past should not be given a position of major national responsibility. If Reagan should offer his name to the Senate, we urge the most careful scrutiny of Haig's Watergate involvement--and expect that that would render his approval impossible...
Both the general public and big Institutional Investors have been active in the market, but large pension funds, insurance companies and mutual funds have been major buyers of the bigger issues. It is harder for the small investor to get ahold of the most exciting stocks because brokers usually give the first shot to their larger clients who will buy 5,000 to 10,000 shares at a time. Federal regulations in 1979 encouraged pension funds to invest part of their huge assets in riskier ventures like new issues, antiques and diamonds; and institutions have soaked up about...
...public housing construction. The shelters encouraged the wealthy to invest chunks of income that would otherwise have been heavily taxed. The problem was that in some cases lawyers and accountants found clever ways to make such investments appear much larger on paper than they actually were. In 1976 a major revision of the tax code eliminated some of the most abused shelter provisions...