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...Wheatstone Bridge-double differential CH3C6H2 (NO2)3 set. These people are more cogs; automata; they simply feel to make sure you've punched the right holes. As they cannot think, they cannot be impressed; they are clods. The only way to beat their system is to cheat.) In the humanities and social sciences, it is well to remember, there is a man (occasionally a woman), a human type filling out your picture postcard. What does he want to read? How, in a word, can he be snowed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Grader Replies | 5/20/1983 | See Source »

...deals must be struck with what Reagan has called an "evil empire," a nation that reserves "the right to commit any crime, to lie, to cheat," then the U.S. must insist on the most intrusive, comprehensive inspection measures to assure that the Soviets are not violating any new agreement by hiding weapons that are supposed to be limited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playing for the Future | 4/18/1983 | See Source »

...poll conducted for TIME by Yankelovich, Skelly and White Inc.,* 36% of those questioned believed that cheating on income taxes is becoming more common. More unsettling, 43% found it "acceptable" to barter goods and services without reporting it on the tax forms, and 26% found it acceptable not to report cash payments as income. Other polls reveal an even greater cynicism. In a survey taken in Oregon, one out of four citizens admitted cheating on taxes. In another study, more than half believed that nearly all Americans would cheat if they felt they could get away with it. Yet another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cheating by the Millions | 3/28/1983 | See Source »

...liquor business, says Bill. One way is to clear the cash register a few hours before closing time, so that part of the day's sales go unrecorded. Since the state keeps a close watch on liquor sales, it is safer to record the liquor sales and cheat on food. Bill says he knows one owner who grosses $500,000 a year from his nightclub but reports only $100,000 on his tax returns. "Stealing money from the IRS requires that the owners of the business do it," says Bill. "You don't let anyone else but family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cheating by the Millions | 3/28/1983 | See Source »

...Germany too an elaborate welfare system that can take up to 60% of an average worker's pay tempts many to cheat. Says a Finance Ministry official: "The imagination of the German taxpayer knows no bounds." One fertile field involves the 2 million foreign workers, who are often paid in cash for construction jobs. All told, the "shadow economy" costs the authorities an estimated $10 billion in unpaid taxes, but the less imaginative Germans dutifully pay far more: $156 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dodging Taxes in the Old World | 3/28/1983 | See Source »

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