Word: brackets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...profits on stocks, real estate or other investments that have been held for six months or more. Previously, as an incentive for private investors to expand the economy, the highest tax on such gains was 25%, a far smaller bite than that on regular income in the upper tax brackets. Under the new law, the tax on capital gains for many high-income people can be as much as 35%; under highly complex rules that add still other taxes, it can go up to 45.5%. At the same time Congress sliced the maximum personal tax on salaries and other "earned...
...will also discourage such extremely risky ventures as investing in wildcat oil drilling and backing Broadway plays. The reason is that in the past, high-bracket investors could write off expenses on such projects from their regular income, yet declare any profits from the sale of the investment at the preferential capital-gains rate of 25%. The narrowing of the difference between those two rates in some cases hardly makes the great risks of failure worthwhile...
...Morins chose to work primarily with men in the 17-to-28 age bracket who have committed misdemeanors. "We make a good team," Bill says proudly; he concentrates on the man while his wife does what she can for the family. He also belies the stereotype of the blue-collar worker as the grousing, Archie Bunkeresque bigot. He grew up in a tough Polish-American enclave in Minneapolis and is proud of the fact that he has worked since he was twelve years old. But he and Jean, who worked at a day-care center for mentally retarded children until...
Using the binary number system represented by the dots opposite the planets, it can be concluded that the three dots above the female's raised arm represent the number six and probably indicate that the alien race has six-fingered hands. Finally, the bracket at the lower right seems to measure the height of the adults and is labeled at mid-point by the binary number eleven. Because the only length that the senders and receivers know in common is the 21-cm. wave length of the transmitted signal, it can be assumed that the adults are eleven...
...about sizes. "Most stores call you small, medium, large or extra large." she says, "but in our shop you're Petite (size 16 to 20), Coquette (size 221 to 261) or Mademoiselle (261 to 321)." Anything larger ranks in the Duchess class. Nancy herself is in the Mademoiselle bracket, and she has ordained that all her models and sales personnel must be at least a size 16. "We never show our clothes on skinny models," she says. "If the models are a size 10 or 12, how am I to know how it will look...