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...conducted on the IRS. The GAO report said that at some IRS processing centers, refund checks were mutilated and tax forms were left on loading docks. The GAO also said that kinks in the new IRS computer system and inadequate staffing had made matters worse. IRS Spokesman A. Ernest Acosta said the agency was "taking corrective action." Ideally, the difficulties will be resolved soon. Tax-filing season for 1985 is bearing down. AGRICULTURE Catfish Are Jumpin...
...German Acosta, 31, was sleeping at home with his father and four brothers when the avalanche struck, blanketing all five with mud. Acosta can remember hearing boulders knock down walls and doors of their home. The family began racing up the stairs from the second floor of their dwelling toward the roof. As they climbed, a wall collapsed, trapping the father. Eventually Acosta and his brothers dragged the older man to safety, but within hours he was dying, vomiting blood...
...Robert Acosta, a police officer from Florida who worries about protecting his 6-year-old son from dirty TV, expresses that sentiment plaintively: "We have to go back to the '50s. The world is going crazy. The '50s was a great time." Perhaps decency advocates mourn not only the moral standards of the '50s but also the social consensus. Opinion about today's balkanized media is as fragmented as their audience. So who should set the standard? Parents of kids under 18? (They make up only 36% of U.S. households.) Senior citizens? That gay guy with the nipple ring...
Last week the Department of Justice announced it was going to crack open history and see if anything new crawled out. Assistant Attorney General R. Alexander Acosta described a joint project with Mississippi to reopen the 1955 inquiry into the death of 14-year-old Emmett Till because "information has been brought to our attention that suggests that other individuals may have been involved in the murder." A main impetus, he said, was an unfinished documentary by novice director Keith Beauchamp...
...you’re in a class where you don’t vknow anyone and want to ask somebody for help, this is a way to find out the names of people in that class,” said thefacebook.com user Roberto C. Acosta...