Word: aaron
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...NORTHERN IRELAND on a beautiful summer's day, Brian Friel's Lovers gives a warm (and loving) glance at two 17-year-old fiances. Sitting on a hill overlooking their town, Mag (Sarah Jane Cohen) and Joe (Aaron Carlos) try to study for final exams but mainly dream of their future together. Before long, Friel introduces a tragic twist: the couple will die in a boating accident before the afternoon is over...
...were beating the Mets. But before Dohi could say what the score was in the sixth game of the championship series, the crowd in Sanders Theater broke into a mixture of cheers and hisses. When they eventually calmed down the orchestra appropriately performed a work by American composer Aaron Copland...
...European Jewish clientele who filled the rooms, wandered the greenery, searched for mates, did a locust number on the four Lucullan meals a day (including a midnight snack) and cheered the tummlers, a Yiddish word for exuberant entertainers. The performers themselves were a nation of immigrants: David Daniel Kaminski, Aaron Chwatt, Jacob Pincus Perelmuth, Morris Miller, Eugene Klass, Joseph Levitch, Milton Berlinger, Joseph Gottlieb. All are better known under their noms de borscht: Danny Kaye, Red Buttons, Jan Peerce, Robert Merrill, Gene Barry, Jerry Lewis, Milton Berle, Joey Bishop...
...rhetoric from Congress and the White House about the need to simplify the tax code, the reform bill still contains many vagaries. Tax shelters affecting real estate, for example, have + been effectively squelched, but those involving oil and gas exploration remain relatively untouched. In Aaron's view, the major business losers under the new code would be the office- and apartment-construction industries, some public utilities, and transport and communications companies. Probable winners include firms that have not been able to take advantage of tax shelters in the past, such as retailers and even some manufacturing industries, like food companies...
...filled with wrinkles, like a complicated "minimum tax" procedure for corporations that previously paid little or no taxes, and dizzying "transitional rules" designed to ease many businesses into the new regime. Fretted Manhattan Economist Alan Greenspan: "I don't think we yet understand how complex this is." As Aaron put it: "You will discover hardships, provisions that don't work the way that you want them to, tax liabilities that Congress would conclude it didn't want to impose. In some cases, the lawmakers will want to back off." If that is so, the tax reform bill of 1986 could...