Word: withdrawnness
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...penny is a casualty of inflation; people do not want to be bothered with it. Though an estimated 40 billion pennies are supposed to be in circulation; millions are removed each year as they pile up in dresser drawers and Mason jars. The more that are withdrawn, the more the Government has to mint so that merchants will be assured a steady supply. The report estimates that by 1990 the mint will have to turn out 37 billion pennies a year (compared with 9 billion today); by then, the cost of manufacturing a penny will be about 1.5?, more than...
...Churches Should Not Pay Taxes, by the Rev. Dean M. Kelley (Harper & Row; 151 pages; $6.95). Kelley, religious-liberty director of the National Council of Churches, takes up arms against a recent trend toward taxing religious institutions (hard-pressed New York City, for example, has withdrawn exemption from the property of the American Bible Society). Kelley argues that churches should be protected as the only institutions that provide meaning in people's lives on a massive scale, a function of great social value even to nonbelievers. He points out that tax-exempt church properties are not a big cause...
...tent. Silly phrases, children's art work and Harriet's more sophisticated doodles interrupted the more serious accounts of battles with county officials and with the coast guard. Local bureaucrats had tried to halt construction in the valley, had subpoenaed the residents because they did not use electricity, had withdrawn permits because the group was building with recycled wood and had tried to arrest them without even looking at their blueprints for sanitary and ecological compost privy structures. But the warrants and injunctions now dangle inactively and lives in the valley continue with a quiet sense of victory...
...Humility. By midafternoon on March 20, the last day of balloting, opposition leaders knew that the Prime Minister was in trouble in her constituency, Rae Bareli. Sealed off by sycophants, she did not learn the truth until 8 that night. She took the news calmly but became remote and withdrawn, stoically advising her ministers that if she had lost, she had lost. Before dawn the next morning she asked the Acting President to lift the state of emergency. Two hours later she summoned her ministers, many of whom had also been defeated, and told them she would resign...
...reporters crowded into a hearing room on Capitol Hill to watch the Senate Judiciary Committee grill L. Patrick Gray, Nixon's nominee for FBI director, about his role in the Watergate investigation. Like Champion, Gray was the only official available for questioning, and his nomination was eventually withdrawn. Champion was clearly luckier, for the Souza Medicare fraud scandal has apparently blown over. So he can now turn his attention to simpler problems--like welfare reform...