Word: code
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hint of impending reform under Mladenov, legislators removed article 273 of the penal code, which was broadly used to punish anyone deemed to have slandered the state or Communist Party. This means that independent groups, which have in the past have been harrassed by police, will have more freedom...
Markers, scorpions, the code, sideways killers and gypsies are all names Shepard tosses around in his version of the dog-eat-dog world of rock and roll. But what these terms mean never really becomes clear; The Tooth of Crime could be about some sort of competition between rival gangsters or even drag racers. Uncertain references to knives, guns, engines and a deejay cloud the action...
...secret" because the cost is hidden in the tax code. Beneficiaries of the mortgage interest deduction don't receive a government check in the mail. They simply write down on their tax returns the amount of interest they paid on their home mortgage, and thereby avoid a substantial part of their income tax bill...
...mortgage interest deduction also benefits from its low political visibility. It's easier to spend $30 billion through the tax code than to mail out one million checks for $30,000. It wasn't until 1974 that Congress and the President were even required to list the revenue loss of "tax expenditures" such as the mortgage interest deduction as costs on the budget...
...mortgage interest deduction has the privilege of being one of the most sacred of sacred cows in the tax code. During the debate over the 1986 tax reform bill, proposals to limit the deduction to primary residences and to cap the rate of deduction at 14 percent were soundly defeated in Congress...