Word: code
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...comparison, General Electric seems to be concerned not with how much is spent but with what is watched. Thirteen top-of-the-line 1983 GE televisions will include a home censor for parental use. Just punching in a private code and a channel number will keep Junior from leching after Morgan Fairchild. It will, in fact, keep the entire channel off the set for twelve hours. If Junior learns the code, however, he can retaliate by wiping out, say, Little House on the Prairie. This may introduce a whole new version of family feud...
...appear to have overstepped the bounds of judicial propriety. The nation has developed an elaborate network of standards to limit judges off-the-courts behavior. Those who publicly transgress those unwritten bounds at the very least lose their legitimacy: the less fortunate, like Fortas, lose their jobs. Those monastic codes have led some justices to renounce even activities with the most tenuous ties to politics, like voting. Recent attacks on Chief Justice Warier E. Burger for advocating specific criminal code reforms, are only the most recent expressions of America's historic aversion to judicial interventionism...
While some Americans are resorting to illegal means to lessen the tax bite, many others are beginning to search through the tax code in hopes of uncovering some new deduction. Tax collectors have no troubles with that. "Take everything that's due you," advises Bob Ruttenberg, an IRS official in Boston. "We only want our fair share...
Discovering legitimate tax breaks can be a difficult task because the internal revenue code is honeycombed with a plethora of exceptions, deductions and tax credits. As late as 1967, there were only 50 of these perfectly legal provisions, and they cost the U.S. Treasury $36.5 billion in forgone revenue. The number has doubled to 104, and the revenue loss is an awesome $266.2 billion. Government planners estimate that the amount will reach $465.2 billion...
...fill out their Form 1040s accurately and completely, the task has become ever more arduous and exasperating. Congress loaded last year's tax bill with new deduction rules, depreciation formulas and tax-shelter gimmicks and thus added to the confusion that has already made the Internal Revenue Code scarcely more comprehensible than a textbook on quantum mechanics...