Word: crashing
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...capital-gains tax; he also knows that Bush is loath to raise income taxes to achieve this. Brady, on the other hand, has long objected to the quick turnover of securities by stock- and bondholders. Ever since he headed a blue-ribbon panel that investigated the 1987 Wall Street crash, Brady has waged a personal campaign to get people to make long-term investments rather than take short-term profits. A tax on security transactions, Brady feels, would encourage investors to take the longer view...
Securities lobbyists, in a desperate attempt to marshal opponents on Capitol Hill, immediately labeled the transfer levy a "tax on savings." Other critics note that Brady's own commission pointed out that a similar plan proposed by lawmakers in October 1987 helped trigger the crash...
...nerve of these people, recycling that story. No, the shrewdness of these people. For Days of Thunder offers adolescent males the possibility of a high- speed crash almost every minute. It offers their dates the possibility of a shy, winning Tom Cruise smile on an equal-opportunity basis. The boys get some sober, silly chat about the nature of courage. The girls get to see one of their sex (Nicole Kidman) play doctor with Cruise...
...that he sympathized. There was "no doubt," he said, that Joe and Joyce Cruzan "are loving and caring parents." So if the state of Missouri had to let anyone decide to end medical treatment of their daughter Nancy, who has lain in an irreversible coma ever since a car crash seven years ago, "the Cruzans would surely qualify." Despite all this sympathy, however, Rehnquist spoke last week for a 5-to-4 Supreme Court majority in regretfully rejecting the Cruzans' plea to have their daughter "set free...
...competent is the key word for Cruzan, 32, who survives only by being fed through an abdominal tube and who is not able to think or speak about her fate. Her parents argued that she had told a friend not long before the crash that she would not want to live unless "she could live at least halfway normally," but the lower court ruled that this evidence was "unreliable" and "insufficient...