Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shelters enable people to generate paper losses to write off against their regular income, thus shielding their cash from the full bite of the IRS. Generally a group of investors forms a partnership, which enables members to claim personal deductions proportionate to the money they put into the group's investment. In a corporation, on the other hand, losses are charged against the company and provide no individual tax benefits...
...schools I know anything about, the social life of the children is meanspirited, competitive, exclusive, status-seeking, full of talk about who went to whose birthday party and who got how many Valentine cards and who is talking to so-and-so and who is not." To those who claim that this constitutes realistic preparation for life's hard knocks. Holt replies: "The best preparation for bad experience is good?and anyway I don't want to prepare people to get along. I want them to resist, to change society for the better...
Lilly also says that Wolfe's claim about Darvon's effectiveness is misleading because it is largely based on studies of single, rather than multiple, doses of the drug. Doctors prefer Darvon for some patients because, unlike aspirin, it does not cause gastrointestinal bleeding or lower the body temperature. Concludes Lilly's Dr. Robert Furman: "Used as directed, Darvon is really very safe. The fact that some people are intent on abusing it shouldn't be used to indict...
...also been looking at test preparation industries and its claims. Although no report has officially been released yet, observers expect that the FTC report will back up Stanley H.Kaplan's claim that "there is a difference...
...does claim, however, that "thousands have improved their scores," based upon the results that students voluntarily submit. Word-of-mouth advertising comprises 80 per cent of Kaplan's business. But while some people swear by his preparation system, others swear...