Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Break in the hit-team hunt...
...professional hit men armed with silencer-equipped, .22-cal. automatic pistols. Although they have accounted for at least 20 Mob executions over the past two years, mystified lawmen knew them only as the ".22-cal. hitters" (TIME, April 18). But now the FBI believes it has a big break in the case -and indeed one of the killers. Last week federal prosecutors in Los Angeles were preparing indictments against an underworld moneylender named Joseph Ullo, charging him with two of the .22-cal. slayings...
...churches realize that explicit sexual material has been creeping into network programs for several years. But Soap is regarded as a key test case. The Rev. Everett Parker, media watchdog of the liberal United Church of Christ, calls the program "a deliberate effort to break down any resistance to whatever the industry wants to put into prime time." Says Wall Street Media Analyst Anthony Hoffman: "Soap is a stalking horse. If it is a success, everyone will want...
...successful with women. One winter, young Kepesh receives a letter from his hero describing Herbie's latest toilet imitations and, against all the dictates of prudence, carries it around in his trousers. "Of course," he remembers, "I am terrified that if I should drown while ice skating or break my neck while sledding, the envelope postmarked BROOKLYN, NY will be found by one of my schoolmates, and they will all stand around my corpse holding their noses...
...selfish one. Treating capital gains as ordinary income, for example, would penalize not only the very rich but also the middle-income salary earner trying to build up an estate for his children through investing in common stocks or real estate. Also, the elimination of the capital gains break might do more to restrict the flow of funds available for much-needed business expansion than the more generous investment tax credits, and new break on dividends would do to increase new investments. Democrat Al Ullman, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, opposes reductions in capital gains-and that...