Word: bottoms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bill. As they labor to come up with a program to fulfill the goals Reagan announced last month, White House aides realize that in the era of Gramm-Rudman they must fight drugs on the cheap. One top Administration official privately tempered the President's high-flown rhetoric with bottom-line bureaucratese. Said he: "You've got a zero-sum game as far as budgeting goes...
...light signals that the indignities of age are no less painful for being suffered in the sunshine. The red label on a jar of coffee peeks from the refrigerator, an emblem of that sparkling world just outside, but the atmosphere is keyed to the humble brown mess at the bottom of his cooking pan. There must be times in this sunny town when the laughs come hard. That picture points to the prime dilemma of color reporting. Color is pretty, misery is not. Susan Meiselas followed the war against Somoza in Nicaragua. Jean-Marie Simon covered life in Guatemala during...
...housing construction. Drunkenness, he continued, has not diminished as a problem but has simply been driven indoors by Gorbachev's antidrinking campaign, while drug abuse is "widespread" and thievery in retail stores is rife. "We dig and dig," he reportedly said, "and still we don't get to the bottom of the filthy well." Though Yeltsin ruffled some party feathers, his frank speech seemed a harbinger of more glasnost to come...
...bottom of the scale, some 6 million people with incomes at or below the poverty line will be freed from paying any income tax at all, doing away with a pernicious unintended consequence of the current law: for the past several years the poor have been sending a growing share of their meager pay to Washington. About 80% of taxpayers will owe less; though many of the reductions will be small, they add up to big money. Collectively, individuals ! over the next five years will keep in their wallets $121.7 billion that they would have to hand over...
What will tax reform really mean when Americans reach the bottom line on their 1040 forms? In a study for TIME, the accounting firm of Coopers & Lybrand used computer models to calculate the burden for seven hypothetical families under the current code and under the proposed law for 1988, the first year that most of the changes will become fully effective. These are rough figures, since the fine-tuning of the measure has not yet been completed...