Word: programer
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...which praised Reagan's proposal, has already appealed for a $27 billion 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...
That tactic enabled middle-of-the-road Republicans to join in. Announced New York's Jacob Javits, who had opposed Kemp-Roth: "I can go along." Added Illinois' Chuck Percy, who had taken little part in the negotiations: "We have jointly worked out a tax program." Gloated Conable: "This all happened while Jimmy Carter was in Portugal. It shows how relevant...
...most part, the document reflected the views of Carter's partisans on the platform committee. Senator Edward Kennedy's forces, outnumbered by almost 2 to 1, were defeated on all their major platform goals, including a huge antirecession program to create 800,000 jobs...
...either the Khmer Rouge or non-Communist groups known collectively as the Khmer Serei. All oppose the Hanoi-installed regime of Heng Samrin in Phnom-Penh. By midweek virtually all of the Vietnamese had withdrawn. But the action appeared to have slowed, if not halted, a United Nations program to repatriate to Cambodia any refugees volunteering to go. Moreover, with some 10,000 of their troops still poised along the border area, the Vietnamese remained an ominous threat to Thailand's security...
...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 in Cambodia...