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- <title>
- Sep. 04, 1989: Died:Joseph Pechman
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 70
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- <p> DIED. Joseph Pechman, 71, voluble economist who helped shape
- the landmark Tax Reform Act of 1986; of a heart attack; in
- Potomac, Md. A senior fellow at the Brookings Institution since
- 1960, Pechman forcefully campaigned for the elimination of
- loopholes in the tax code in return for fairer, lower rates. He
- was a member of TIME's Board of Economists from 1970 to 1981.
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- </body></article>
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