Word: caps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...speeches. She actually questioned the good taste of this tradition. Imagine that! In short, she was too dumb--or rather too smart--no, too dumb to come. Well, at least she knows that if one doesn't have anything smart to say, one shouldn't come to Harvard. Old Cap Weinberger didn't realize this and we had to resort to ketchup to drown him out. And that Contra-guy, (what was his name?) it took him two visits here before he understood that he didn't fit in. Boy was he dumb! Thank goodness more people are getting...
Congressional opponents of takeovers hope to keep the raiders from returning to their full glory. The House last week passed a tax bill that, among other things, would put a $5 million cap on interest deductions for debt resulting from takeovers. The measure would inhibit corporate raids, and many Wall Streeters believe the specter of the possible tax change depressed takeover stocks and thus played a role in setting off October's crash. Raiders hope the anti-takeover provision will die in House-Senate conference when lawmakers realize that the tax could drive stock prices still lower...
...effort to bring art to the wilderness, the Radcliffe Quadrangle will cap off three years of renovations this winter by showcasing a "walls of ice" artistic project, Office of the Arts officials said yesterday...
...home-mortgage interest, a provision that was originally created to help families buy their first home. But perhaps that write-off is too generous. Earlier this month the House Ways and Means Committee adopted a $12.3 million tax-increase package that, among other measures, would finally put a cap on the deduction, limiting it to the first $1 million in mortgage debt. But why not lower the boom even further? As Committee Chairman Dan Rostenkowski pointed out, "With the people I represent, if you talk $75,000, you're talking big money for a home." A sensible limit might...
...also recall thinking there were few really poor people Nuevo Laredo or Piedras Negras, where we visited the following day. After all, everyone was working, and working hard selling cap pistols or toy tops. How could anyone have been truly down...