Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Your basic premise was flawed. Why shouldn't corporations try to avoid paying taxes? Corporations are owned by stockholders. Stockholders are taxpaying individuals who are taxed on any dividends they receive from the corporation and are taxed on any gain in the value of their stock. The corporations are taxed, and the stockholders are taxed. So all of the productive activity of the corporation is taxed twice. If you want to investigate the "fleecing of America," why not investigate why the government thinks it needs all this twice-taxed money? Investigate how much money is spent spending the money that...
...brands of makeup and fragrance. The music is low, the lighting is flattering and the merchandise, much of which is helpfully arranged by category rather than brand, is out for the touching and taking. Salesclerks leave you alone unless you need them; and if you'd prefer to avoid the staff altogether, touch-activated video monitors can guide you through product selection. Sephora's ambition, says the company's marketing vice president Sherry Baker, is to create an experience that is exciting--"visually, sensually, spiritually, intellectually...
...musical Danielle Steele, chronicling the middle-age discovery of true joy in a tainted world: "Happy/With you in my arms/Happy/With you in my heart." It is not that contemporary music requires intelligent lyrics to be successful, but if the lyrics go unaccompanied by powerful music, they might at least avoid offending the listener...
...full." Images of men and masculinity pervade the novel. Physical strength and presence are a big part of Charlie's aura--he is proud of his huge frame just as Conrad (the Californian worker) is obsessed with his massive hands and arms. Croker is determined to avoid outward signs of weakness, and his pride drives him to ridiculous displays of machismo...
...Kissinger be tried, if the Cambodians demand it. If we believe in justice, and if we believe that our policies are just, then we should be able to support international courts without hesitation. If those courts are corrupt or biased, then that is no reason to avoid them; if we are part of the international community, and we certainly can't claim that we aren't, then the quality of justice in such courts is also in our hands...