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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...final bill includes a third-year reduction. Without one, he argues, the average American will actually face a net tax increase because of inflation, higher tax brackets and rising Social Security obligations. Some House Democrats last week said they were willing to compromise by accepting a third-year "trigger" under which the tax cuts would continue only if the economy seemed to warrant it at the time. So far, the White House is holding out for a firm third-year commitment to cut again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Christmastime on Capitol Hill | 7/27/1981 | See Source »

...source of a moving assignment. Boston Bureau Chief Barry Hillenbrand, who covered Viet Nam for TIME from 1972 to 1974, discovered that his war experience provided an important link with the veterans he met. Says Hillenbrand: "For months after leaving Indochina, the innocent whoosh of a water heater could trigger the memory of a rocket attack. It was not hard for me to know how veterans felt when they returned." New York Bureau Chief Peter Stoler, who served as an infantryman in Korea for 14 months, was also able to bring a soldier's point of view...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Jul. 13, 1981 | 7/13/1981 | See Source »

...Hiroshima, and the guilt of identifying with the victors as well, the knowledge that the destroyers of the world never came from any planet but our own. Better to hold all that destructiveness at one remove. The U.S. keeps a plane in the air with the capacity to trigger the missile system if ground controls are destroyed. It calls the aircraft Looking Glass. And the power of the nation's weaponry is disguised in initials (MX) or mythology (Titan), where even the Titan Prometheus must be having second thoughts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Looking Straight at the Bomb | 7/6/1981 | See Source »

...hands. Who can doubt but that Pollard would rather have met the death a thousand times. None that knew him will ever doubt. Neither of his companions but that shrank from the heart-rending trial. So they were compelled again to cast lots that who should draw the fatal trigger. As if the fate would have it, the awful die turned upon Captain Pollard, [who] for a long time declared that he could never do it, but finally had to submit. Coffin then called to them to come near whilst he breathed a parting message to his dear mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Nantucket: Moby Dick Revisited | 6/29/1981 | See Source »

...fact, Russell Long, the ranking Democrat on the Finance Committee. told the President at a White House meeting, "You have the votes in the Senate to pass your tax bill." At that session, Long's Louisiana colleague, Democrat J. Bennett Johnston, urged inclusion in the package of a "trigger mechanism'' that would eliminate a proposed third year of tax cuts if deficits rose too high. But Reagan's attitude was 5-10-10 or fight. Said he, "Government spends all the taxes it gets. If we reduce taxes, we'll reduce spending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Battles on Two Fronts | 6/29/1981 | See Source »

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