Word: bille
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fundraising is not exactly what drew me into academic life," Bok said in a recent interview. "Obviously, it would be better if you could just total up a bill and send it someplace...
...find missing persons. Sports people. I've made a living locating long-lost athletes. Bill Walton. Dennis Eckersley. Bernard King. I found them when no one else could...
...hidden in the tax code. Beneficiaries of the mortgage interest deduction don't receive a government check in the mail. They simply write down on their tax returns the amount of interest they paid on their home mortgage, and thereby avoid a substantial part of their income tax bill...
PROPONENTS bill the mortgage interest deduction as the average citizen's ticket to the American Dream--home ownership. Unfortunately, the average citizen gets only a small portion of the benefits. The mortgage interest deduction is worth far more to the rich, who are in higher tax brackets and tend to own more expensive homes...
...mortgage interest deduction has the privilege of being one of the most sacred of sacred cows in the tax code. During the debate over the 1986 tax reform bill, proposals to limit the deduction to primary residences and to cap the rate of deduction at 14 percent were soundly defeated in Congress...