Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dukakis budget plans come in the wake of negative reaction to the governor's proposal for a $604 million tax hike for next year. The tax plan would raise revenue by increasing taxes on alcohol, cigarettes and capital gains...
Flynn, who endorsed the tax plan in general terms, stopped short of supporting each element in the package, which would raise taxes on investments, gasoline, cigarettes, alcohol, interstate telephone calls and other areas...
...philosophies and intentions of non-violent groups, such as PETA, which constitute the vast majority of the "movement." The $400 which PETA spent in rescuing lobsters, which Sharfstein suggests could have been used more productively, is less than what many students probably spend in a year for alcohol or in a week for a vacation, yet Sharfstein does not refer to the "perverted values" which, according to his logic, are responsible for this behavior...
...more attractive: by default. "Everything else is worse," says economist Lester Thurow, dean of M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management. For instance, Congress will be loath to fiddle with personal income tax rates so soon after the landmark Tax Reform Act of 1986. And while additional "sin" levies on alcohol and tobacco will be an option, they would raise far less revenue than a comparable gasoline-tax hike. At the same time, a national sales tax would be a complex experiment that lawmakers seem unlikely...
Once they ran him down, police charged Barish, 29, with driving under the influence of alcohol, evading arrest, driving without a valid license and several other outstanding warrants. Throughout the marathon pursuit, police * never attempted to run him off the road. Explained a spokesman: "That only works in the movies...