Word: programing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...every school is eager for such a pragmatic approach. Says Assistant History Professor John Willis, a member of the faculty-student committee now making final plans for an Afro-American studies department at the University of Wisconsin: "Students have asked for an action-oriented program while serious academicians want a department oriented toward scholarship." Though Willis himself is black, he goes along with the professors because "I'm an academic Tom-I can see the quality angle...
...Administration that prides itself on careful deliberation, last week's tax proposals were put together with rather uncomfortable haste. Presenting the Nixon program to the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, Treasury Under Secretary Charls E. Walker sounded almost apologetic when Chairman Wilbur Mills complained that the plan touched only a few tax inequities. "We have tried to meet some of these things head-on," Walker conceded. "But after all, we have had less than 100 days...
Reshuffling the Burden. The "most critical problem," said Assistant Treasury Secretary (for tax policy) Edwin Cohen at the House hearings, is to maintain "confidence in the tax structure." Nixon's program seeks to do that by reshuffling some $4 billion in tax liabilities without much altering the $165 billion federal income-tax take. Thus the impact on the inflation-ridden U.S. economy is likely to be small. The main thrust, as Nixon described it, is to "lighten the burden on those who pay too much, and increase the taxes of those who pay too little." He added: "We shall...
...question, repeal of the tax credit will crimp the profits of companies in capital-intensive industries. On Wall Street, which generally shrugged off the tax announcement, that prospect depressed stock prices among construction firms, computer-leasing companies, steelmakers and airlines which are in the midst of a costly modernization program. Some small and medium-sized firms may well choose to curtail their factory expansion. At General Motors, the tax credit amounted to $39 million last year, or nearly 4% of its profits. But G.M. does not plan to cut back on its $1.1 billion spending program (up 28% from last...
...panel discussion last week why the Corporation could not take a loss on investments and rentals, Calkins responded with an artful practical problem. You want us to spend more money in the ghettoes? Then we will have to cut down somewhere else, like in the new Afro-American Studies program or in the new fellowship for black graduate students...