Word: bracketed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past six years the number of deaths from heart disease in the 55-to-64-year age bracket declined 15%. But the group experienced a 4% rise in cancer deaths. In addition, there has been an increase in respiratory diseases, kidney and liver ailments and, particularly among the young, venereal disease...
...even worse off. Since he has taken most of his tax write-offs in the first year or two, his share of the profits in later years will be taxable. Added to his nonmovie income, those profits can lift him from the 50% into the 70% tax bracket...
...respectively, took it on the chin for the second time in as many outings. In New Haven, Yale kept pace with the Tigers and Bruins (all three sport unblemished marks of 2-0), brushing aside Colgate. Dartmouth and Cornell evened their seasonal marks, powering their way in the winners' bracket with a pair of non-league triumphs...
...figure compositions. John's favorite subjects remained the two main women in his life, Ida the wife and Dorelia the patient mistress, posing among their hordes of children in long columnar skirts and peasant shawls beside Romany caravans. But the 20th century was for John merely the unfortunate bracket of time in which he happened to live. He shared neither its energies nor its Angst. He saw modernity as a threat, an encroachment of "terrible simplifiers" on the sturdy, randy freedom of the gypsy artist. "I feel myself personally outraged and assailed by a horrible and inhuman monster...
...many Britons, the nation's high public spending has meant a steady decrease in private income. Most British workers are in a 33% income tax bracket. The top tax rate for singles is 83% on the portion of taxable income over $38,000. This compares with a 70% maximum rate on taxable income over $100,000 in the U.S. Even in socialist Sweden, the highest tax rate is 69%. And when they venture abroad, Britons find that their money buys increasingly less; last week the pound was worth $2.10, v. $2.35 only last...