Word: brackets
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...approach graduation these are just a few of my most salient memories. Many will dismiss them as isolated incidents, unrepresentative of Harvard life. Of course, I could include other, more general observations: that most friendship circles fall within the same tax bracket, that most student government "progressives" have never spent an hour volunteering at a shelter, and that most of our fellow students would readily stab us in the back in order to climb the extracurricular ladder. It is true that my indictment does not impugn every individual here. But, I am deeply certain that my portrait does accurately represent...
...Employment Policies and President Neil L. Rudenstine's subsequent announcement committing the University to those recommendations are reassuring signs that Harvard does, at some basic level, care about the welfare of its workers. But in that these labor policies, which focus almost exclusively on health and job training benefits, bracket the central issue of wages, the University's response is far from adequate...
College students--as members of an age bracket old enough to begin making financial decisions, but too young to have formed established connections with particular brands--are a particularly sought-after group...
...home of the New Kids on the Block, two of whom have made praiseworthy efforts at pulling mildly successful independent careers from the wreckage that was NKOTB. Although the boys are teen idols no more (they are both in their late 20s), fans in the under-13 age bracket continue to adore Jordan Knight (winner of Single of the Year for "Give It to You") and Joey McIntyre (winner of Outstanding Video for "I Love You Came Too Late"). I was entirely flabbergasted to see both of them called to the stage at various points during the evening...
...holdings--at least a year. Otherwise, the gain is income and taxed up to 39.6%. The lesson: it may be worth sitting on a stock a little longer to qualify it as a long-term holding. Even if the stock falls, say, 25%; and you're in the top bracket, you'll probably break even because the lower tax rate will offset the price...