Word: difference
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Ghosts of the Depression. Various schemes of tax reform differ greatly in detail, but most proponents of reform agree that the present structure carries the progressive principle too far. While Congress was shaping the constitutional amendment authorizing an income tax, opponents warned that once the floodgate was opened the top rate might some day reach 50% or even higher. Idaho's William E. Borah, a great Senate champion of the amendment, was outraged at the suggestion, complained that it insulted his "sense of fairness, of justice." After the 16th Amendment went into effect in 1913, the top rate...
...future. But any measures that slow down atherosclerosis will prevent almost as many strokes as coronary attacks. Meanwhile, neurologists are working with surgeons to see what can be done about narrowed arteries in the neck, where the surgeon can get at them. From 5% to 20% of strokes (doctors differ widely about the proportion) occur not in the brain but in the carotid arteries in the neck. Houston's Dr. Michael E. DeBakey has pioneered with a series of operations to restore full blood flow through a narrowed carotid-by installing a bypass, or cutting out the narrowed stretch...
Extrapolating from these discrepancies, Kennedy's real total expenditures might differ from his reported ones ($341,367) by a factor of two or three...
...National Collegiate Athletic Association has not yet revealed its decision on the eligibility of the Crimson forward, although its meeting was held Dec. 4. The result is not expected to differ from that of the ECAC...
Edward G. Kaebler, assistant dean, said yesterday that the building would humble a medieval tower. It will differ significantly in appearance from the more traditional architecture of the immediate neighborhood. Kaebler added that he was trying "to find some building that will form a backdrop to the others--one of a quiet design...