Word: collectivities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Republican presidential hopeful Dick Lugartoday proposed eliminating federal income, capital gains and inheritance taxes and replacing them with a 17 percent national sales tax. The Indiana senator saidstates would collect the money, creating a simpler tax system by eliminating the IRS. Such a system would be regressive, however, since lower-income people spend more of their income in cash transactions. TIME Washington correspondent John Dickerson adds that another problem with the proposal is that retailers could find ways to avert the tax and there would be no national authority to catch them. Lugar contends much of the sales tax would...
...based on Buddhism. Its leader is a man named Daisaku Ikeda, who is treated by his followers more like a monarch than a priest. Then there are more obscure figures who claim to have found the secret of universal happiness and peace for all time. Though these leaders may collect a great deal of money from their followers--and though the involvement of the Soka Gakkai in national politics through its own political party, the Komeito, is widely criticized--most of these religions are relatively harmless...
...Texas haul is also made up of money mostly owed to welfare mothers. The joint state/federal enforcement program was originally founded, in part, to defray the costs of Aid to Families with Dependent Children, and the states can still use the money they collect in welfare cases for that purpose. Funds recovered on behalf of nonwelfare mothers, however, simply get passed on to them. The result, says Sue Anderson, a Minnesotan who spent years trying to collect from her ex, is "if you have any sort of income, [the states] don't give you the time of day." Some...
Except for a few dissenters, the citizens of Savannah have welcomed the influx of Midnight enthusiasts. Locals give guided tours of the book's notable sites, like the Bonaventure Cemetery, where the homicide victim used to collect his thoughts and rendezvous with his girlfriend, and Mercer House, the scene of the killing. Predictably, Savannah's merchants offer plenty of Midnight memorabilia like maps and T shirts. A cafa featured in the book now serves "fresh salads from our garden of good and evil...
...sense, that's all you can ever safely say about Hollywood. The problem has always been to discern, in advance, in helpful detail, how to pass Go and (nowadays) collect $200 million domestic, God knows what in the ancillaries. For movie trends-or even individual hits-do not reveal themselves until they are actually thundering down on us. No executive, no agent, certainly no mere movie reviewer usually spots one until it is actually rolling over his toes, sharp pain belatedly signaling where the most money is likely to be found for the next few months-and that the victim...