Word: code
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...billion in taxes a year and maybe more. Individuals and corporations spend billions annually for expert help on how to find loopholes and fill out complex tax forms. Responding to claims that all this is inequitable, President Reagan last January ordered the Treasury Department to "simplify the entire tax code, so all taxpayers, big and small, are treated more fairly...
...worth some $29 billion a year to corporations; they see it as vital to a sustained recovery and would wage a fierce fight to keep it. Business also enjoys some $19 billion annually in tax gains from accelerated depreciation schedules. The total tax breaks for business under the current code will amount to $95 billion this year. Most of them were designed as incentives to encourage economic growth, modernize plants and in the end provide more jobs. Critics argue that many deductions either did not serve their purpose or are no longer needed...
...Boston University professor goes further in calling for special guidelines for transplants on children. Professor of Health Law George T. Annas, who headed up a task force earlier this month which set the guidelines for heart transplants in Massachusetts, advocated a more widespread use of the Nuremberg code of ethics for human experimentation. "There should be absolutely no risky experiments performed on children until the same experiments have been successfully applied to adults," he says...
...harried programmer rushing to run his program before he has to meet his girlfriend. Using the early cumbersome and time-consuming programming system, the "hacker" fails hears a voice telling him to try the new system, in which a programmer interacts directly with the computer to write his code. Using this system, he writes the program easily, it runs perfectly, and in the end he meets the girl...
Ironically, the first of those teachers, and the founder of a faith now known for its warlike strength, was a gentle sage who preached a code of pacifism. Declaring "There is no Hindu, there is no Muslim," Guru Nanak forged a path between the two warring religions, drawing followers from both, when he created Sikhism in Punjab at the end of the 15th century. Two centuries later, however, Guru Nanak's teaching of religious tolerance was radically redirected by the tenth and last of the Sikh gurus, a skilled horseman and dauntless fighter named Gobind Singh. With his people...