Word: defers
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Here's why. The big tax-rule overhaul of 1997 let married homeowners filing jointly pocket up to $500,000 of their home-sale gains tax free, while single filers could keep $250,000. Until then, sellers could defer taxes only by plowing gains into a new house, then taking a once-in-a-lifetime exclusion of up to $125,000 at age 55 or older...
...angry left-wing elite to which we defer for our enlightened opinions tells us, protesting the white and “Eurocentric” state of academia is more important than whether the ideas we encounter here engage us, whether our education inspires us and whether professors take an active role in our intellectual growth...
...three choices: defer his enrollment and graduate late; accept an enrollment extension until Sept. 30; or he could try to get HLS credit for classes taken in England under an existing “hardship-out” program for students who cannot return to campus due to extenuating circumstances...
...current Harvard policies do not allow students to serve their country to the fullest. Incoming first-years are almost never allowed to defer their admissions for two years in order to volunteer for the U.S. military. In most cases, it is only those entering compulsory national or religious service who are granted two-year deferments. In addition, Harvard does not take into account the legal “independent financial status” conferred by the government on veterans when allocating its financial aid. If these two policies were amended, Harvard would encourage a renaissance of national service across...
...latecomer to their causes. Emboldened by G.O.P. control of both houses and the fact that Jan. 22 marks the 30th anniversary of the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision, antiabortion activists want to move quickly to pass new restrictions on the procedure. Frist would rather defer that kind of bitter fight with Democrats until later, but if he angers conservatives, retribution "will be pretty swift and fairly severe," warns Paul Weyrich, president of the Free Congress Foundation, a conservative think tank. It was conservatives critical of Lott's statements "who really drove him from office," Weyrich maintains. "Frist needs...