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Congratulations on your choice of the computer. You have selected my livelihood, my friend and, according to my wife, my constant companion...
...would accelerate hikes in the 6.7% payroll tax, to 7% in 1984; to 7.15% in 1986; 7.5% in 1988; and 7.65% in 1990. This is expected to raise an additional $40 billion in revenue from 1983 to 1989. Late in the negotiations, however, a major snag developed over a companion provision that would give workers an offsetting income tax credit for these extra payments in 1984. "The tax-credit idea is about the poorest part of this proposal," said Senator Armstrong, who denounced it as deficit deepening...
...private life, Levine keeps a low profile. As with many prominent unmarried musicians, Levine gathers rumors the way his formal attire gathers lint. He is whispered to have had liaisons with people of every age and hue, with both sopranos and tenors. But it is his longtime companion, Thomson, a pale, pretty brunet, who lives with him in his unprepossessing apartment and at their 41-acre farm in upstate New York, managing the household. He unwinds with his fruit juice, diet soda and candy bars, and can get by on as little as four hours' sleep, content, as always...
...wall of Levine's apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side is a framed quotation from Thomas Mann's novella The Tables of the Law, given to the conductor by his longtime live-in companion, Sue Thomson. It reads, in part: "Mighty and long labor lay ahead, labor which would have to be achieved through anger and patience before the uncouth hordes could be formed into a people who would be more than the usual community to whom the ordinary was comfortable ..." Too often, there is an air of comfortable ordinariness about the Met, such as casting...
...companion statement issued by Reagan's deputy press secretary. Larry Speakes, acknowledged that "It was the consensus of the President and his foreign policy advisers that it would be helpful to make some changes in the management of his arms control negotiating team...