Word: deductionism
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Just a few decades ago, the whodunit formula demanded by both publishers and readers was compact -- and cozy: 180 pages of pure deduction and cardboard characters propped up in a long-gone rural England. Along with a handful of other contemporary crime writers including Dick Francis and Ruth Rendell, P.D...
Instead of an old standby, the isolated country house, the setting is a complex, violent and very real London of the '80s. A junior Cabinet Minister is found with his throat slashed in the dingy vestry behind the altar of St. Matthew's Anglican Church in the Paddington section of...
WASHINGTON--The question of whether parents should be allowed a tax deduction for a fetus that lives only moments after an abortion is blocking Senate confirmation of Lawrence B. Gibbs to be IRS commissioner.
Somewhat easing the conferees' task, many identical provisions appear in the two bills. Examples: both would entirely remove from the tax rolls some 6 million people below or just above the poverty line, and both would revive the so-called marriage penalty by ending the special deduction for families with...
Moreover, the tax-reform plans that Congress is considering would put limits on the amount of interest that people can deduct on their income-tax returns. At present, the tax system certainly eases the accumulation of debt by allowing taxpayers to subtract all interest from their income. Says Black: "I...