Word: appealling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meandering can always be read as an endorsement of self-centered capitalism and possessive individualism. Epstein is arguing for a particular view of life, the traditional liberal humanist ideology, when he says that gravity is essential to great literature, and gravity depends on the spiritual. Clearly, Marxism will not appeal to Epstein. Accepting the inevitability of politics in novels, even in masterpieces by Dostoyevsky or Conrad, he resists literature blind to the rich variety of life...
...hypothetical creatures of physics appeal to the imagination quite as vividly as black holes -- those insatiable gravitational maws that gobble up everything within reach, not even allowing light to escape. Now it seems more likely than ever that one of these bizarre celestial objects is lurking at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, the island of stars inhabited by the sun and the earth...
Many Congressmen would just as soon lower their sights to an easier target: a minimum tax on corporations and individuals. It would appeal to voters outraged by large corporations that pay no taxes (128 out of 250 large corporations in one study), and by wealthy individuals whose lawyers manage to shelter their income altogether (some 9,000 millionaires). A minimum tax of 20% for individuals and 15% for businesses is already on the books, but it is so riddled with exceptions that it covers only 0.3% of U.S. companies and 0.1% of individuals. Reagan's plan would ensure that both...
...minimum tax alone, without any other tax reform, would have the attraction of generating additional revenue to cut the deficit. To congressional leaders who are more worried about red ink than reform, a tax increase cloaked as tax reform has great appeal. Though few will come right out and endorse a minimum tax at this stage of the budget process, congressional leaders are not + disavowing such a strategy either. "It's a live option," says Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, whose own aspirations for the White House are tied closely to his effort to slash the deficit...
Gilbert is now an inmate at the state prison diagnostic center at Lake Butler, Fla., while his lawyers work on both an appeal of his conviction and an application for clemency. The application could be considered as early as June by the executive clemency board, which consists of Graham and three cabinet members. "We're cautiously hopeful and optimistic," says Harry Gulkin, one of Gilbert's lawyers. "But nothing is guaranteed, as we learned with the jury's verdict...