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...could eventually be as much as $60 billion a year -would be returned, said the White House, not just to drivers but in equal amounts "to every man, woman and child in America" through income tax credits and direct payments to people who do not owe taxes. The credits and payments would function as a kind of income redistribution device. Lower-income people, who usually do not drive as much as those in higher brackets, would pay less in gasoline taxes but receive the same rebates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: CARTER'S PROGRAM: WILL IT WORK? | 5/2/1977 | See Source »

...rearing and older American values-implicitly say to their children, "We will sacrifice for you and be repaid by your success and sense of obligation." The New Breed message: "We will not sacrifice for you, because we have our own lives to lead. But when you are grown, you owe us nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Family: New Breed v. the Old | 5/2/1977 | See Source »

...decriminalization bill is the nominal brainchild of State Reps. John E. Murphy Jr. and Francis W. Hatch Jr. '46. While similar versions of the bill have been submitted to the legislature in the past, Hatch readily acknowledges the debt that his co-sponsor and he owe to the pioneering Oregon law. "We swiped the traffic ticket approach," Hatsh says, adding "it really doesn't hurt to plagiarize. If another state has an intelligent approach to the problem, you have all the preliminary work done. If you have a roughly similar bill, the experience of that state is directly applicable...

Author: By Joseph L. Contreras and Marc H. Meyer, S | Title: The Greening of Massachusetts | 4/29/1977 | See Source »

Purist Approach. Carter's initial grace period with official Washington, if there ever was one, is unmistakably over. The special interests, to whom Carter insists he does not owe a thing, are zeroing in on the White House. Trade-offs and bargains, which Carter does not like, are beginning to be an unavoidable part of his life. "When you start putting forth legislation,"' the President will observe later in the day, "it's hard to say when you should deviate from the purist approach and how much deviation is too much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WHITE HOUSE: With Jimmy from Dawn to Midnight | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

...proliferation of the fight game is something we owe not to Ali or Howard Cosell, but to the 1976 Olympics. For it was in Montreal that men such as Sugar Ray Leonard, Howard Davis and Leon Spinks first received national attention and adoration--feelings they regenerated by turning professional...

Author: By Sandy Cardin, | Title: Boxing Gets Up Off Canvas | 3/23/1977 | See Source »

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