Word: check
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...elimination of the withholding tax [ECONOMY & BUSINESS, April 16]. Most taxpayers think of take-home pay as their income and regard their withheld tax money, which they never see, as not their own. If we all had to sit down and go through the bloodletting of writing a check to the IRS once a year, we would no longer joke about $9,000 screws for fighter planes...
...national economy by way of consumption and not on what they put in. To protect the poor, personal exemptions would be double those under the current income tax, and the tax rate for the bottom income brackets would be lower. The estate and gift tax would be restored to check the growth of dynastic wealth. Americans would thus be encouraged to save and invest during their lifetimes, and the Government would at their death recoup some of the taxes forgone...
...back in Boston on Wednesday of last week. His mother called the hotel manager's office from Virginia at 11:15 a.m. and said she was concerned because David had not appeared at the Kennedys' oceanside compound for dinner the night before. Someone was sent to check the room. David Kennedy was found clothed in shorts and a shirt, lying face down on the floor between the twin beds in the room. He was dead...
...platform and back through the hotel kitchen toward an elevator. As David watched on TV, Sirhan Sirhan shot his father in the head. The cameras focused interminably on the chaos, on the body and the head lying in a pool of blood. In the confusion, no one came to check on David for several hours. When Astronaut John Glenn and Author Theodore White at last discovered him, David was sitting before the television set, unable to speak...
...Kowet right about the incidents he reports? Rosenthal told TIME last week that "Mike Wallace never called about the program, and Mr. Kowet never called to check as to whether Mr. Wallace ever made such a call." Kowet concedes that he did not check his account with Rosenthal and says that Wallace refused him an interview. He adds that CBS blocked his access to other employees; CBS denies that it did so. Kowet explains that he was able to "re-create" conversations quoted in A Matter of Honor by using information from a variety of documents and unnamed sources inside...