Word: cent
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...bill currently being proposed in the California legislature by state Sen. Don Perata would lead to a referendum in November on levying a five cent tax on every bullet sold. This new tax would help pay for the trauma centers which deal directly with the carnage caused by gun violence, not only decreasing the amount of ammunition sold but also making gun owners pay directly for the damage that they inflict on society...
...mere five cent tax on every bullet sold would raise an estimated $400 million per year for California alone. This would not completely cover the medical cost of gun violence but would definitely go a long way toward reducing the burden on society and keeping rocketing healthcare insurance premiums from rising further...
...that in four of the last five years, Enron paid no income taxes. What’s more, it was entirely legal. Through a variety of loopholes, including 800 subsidiaries in tax havens like the Cayman Islands, Enron managed to earn $1.8 billion without owing the government a cent. In fact, the company got a net rebate of $381 million, your tax dollars and mine...
...Both [KSG] Dean Joseph Nye and Professor Ezra Vogel invited me to Harvard,” Akiyama wrote. “I didn’t get even a cent of money from Taiwan at all. I did [not]contact [the] Taiwan side at all. I don’t know how Harvard University raises money for academic activity in general...
...Grip" uses the 1950s crime, horror and sci-fi genre comicbooks as the guide for a new, postmodern comix narrative. Hernandez sets the tone by beginning each of the five issues with a full-page mock cover of a 10-cent pulp book: "Grip of Fear," "Grippingly Romantic Western Mystery," etc. But once inside, the rules have clearly changed. Freaks, unrepentant violence, monsters and sex have been jumbled into a dizzy story that sends up the genres it revels in as much as it honors them...