Word: chicago
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...rained for 40 days and 40 nights, but Noah would feel at home in an area stretching from the Great Lakes down through the Midwest. By last week Michigan had suffered 22 straight days of downpours. Some 2,700 people were evacuated from floods around Chicago, and St. Louis was partly submerged. A damaged dam in Wisconsin was threatening to burst. A tornado ripped through Oklahoma City...
Elena Bonner flew to the U.S., by way of Italy, on Dec. 7, 1985. After visiting briefly with her mother, children and grandchildren in Newton, she underwent a sextuple coronary-bypass operation in Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital. In her five months in the U.S., Bonner traveled to Chicago, to Los Angeles, to Miami, visiting old friends and appearing at many ceremonies in Sakharov's honor. She also paid a discreet visit to the White House, where National Security Adviser John Poindexter received her. In what little spare time she had, she wrote this book. She liked America...
...graceful moves on the football field leave the opposition flat-footed. Now Chicago Bear Willie Gault has pirouetted from the end zone to the ballet | world. Trading cleats and pads for leotards and slippers, the fleet wide receiver leaped to new heights last week with a troupe of inner-city youths and the Chicago City Ballet in a benefit for the Better Boys Foundation. Gault, 26, put in five practice sessions (but no chalk talk) for his number to the music of Webern. He was partnered by Ballerina Maria Terezia Balogh, whom he lifted with the greatest of ease before...
Accountants and financial planners, whose busy season normally arrives near April 15, have an autumn rush on their hands. "The accountants and the H & R Blocks of this world must be rubbing their hands in glee," observes Raymond Kinzie, a senior vice president at Chicago's Lake View Bank. Indeed, tax advisers have been working overtime in a competition to develop the earliest and most detailed advice, and dozens of how-to books and pamphlets are already coming off the printing presses. Examples: the accounting firm Deloitte Haskins & Sells has published a free 96-page booklet, The Tax Revolution...
...real estate. The current top rate for taxing such gains is effectively 20%, but after this year, those profits will be taxed as regular income at higher rates. "I've seen a lot of my clients already selling stocks to benefit from the lower rate," says Mike Ryan, a Chicago financial planner...