Word: angelized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...season of filing under the Tax Reform Act of 1986, a law that was widely expected to make the code not only fairer but simpler as well. Yet taxpayers now contemplating one of their least-favorite civic duties seem to be of one mind. "The new system stinks," said Angel Martinez, a retired Army jungle-warfare expert, as he emerged from an information session at an Internal Revenue Service taxpayer-assistance office in Brooklyn. "I went to college for three years, and now I can't even do my own taxes." The record keeping alone has overwhelmed Arlene Lind...
...some ways, Superman's relentless virtue goes even beyond virtue. In his extraterrestrial origins and the shining purity of his altruism, some commentators have detected a divine aura. "Superman, I've always thought, is an angel," says Andrew Greeley, gadfly Roman Catholic priest and best-selling novelist. "Probably the angel stories found in all of the world's religions are traces of the work in our world of Superman and his relatives. Who is to say I'm wrong?" Proponents of the angel theory believe it is no accident that when Superman is in full flight, his flared collar...
...Nigel Holmes (Executive Director); Dorothy D. Chapman, Irene Ramp (Deputies); Arthur Hochstein, Billy Powers, John F. White, Barbara Wilhelm (Assistant Directors); Angel Ackemyer, James Elsis, Carol March (Designers); Nickolas Kalamaras Layout: Steve Conley (Chief); John P. Dowd (Deputy); Stefano Arata, Joseph Aslaender, David Drapkin, Nomi Silverman, < Kenneth Smith, Eugene Tick Maps and Charts: Paul J. Pugliese (Chief); Cynthia Davis, Joe Lertola, E. Noel McCoy, Nino Telak, Deborah L. Wells...
Then came the Bakker mess, first the revelation of the PTL leader's adultery and then of his hush-money payments and mismanagement. The avenging angel took wing again. Swaggart passed word to denominational leaders of an impending Charlotte Observer report on the hush money and pressed for a cleanup. He declared the scandal to be a "cancer that needs to be excised from the body of Christ...
Mexican officials frown on information provided by sources like Gabriel. They contend that the informants attempt to save their own skin by spreading unverifiable tales about prominent people. True, Gabriel is no angel; his DFS job involved reselling drugs that had been seized by other Mexican police. Still, many of his allegations have the ring of truth. Mexico thoroughly reorganized the DFS in 1985. Says one U.S. investigator of Gabriel: "Whom he says he knows, he knows. He calls them. He talks with them about drugs. We're satisfied that what he says is true...