Word: digit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...taxable in interest from bank savings accounts: the recipient of the free lunch tells to the generous lunch purchaser his or her social security number In order for the business to deduct the "necessary and proper" expense, the business would have to record and report the recipient's 9 digit social security number. At the end of the year the recipient would get a form similar to the W 2 or 1099 tax form which shows the dollar amount of free lunches, or free airfares, or free dinners, or free sports tickets that the person received at the ultimate expense...
With the University's endowment at $1.6 billion and with inflation below 10 percent, why should student charges increase at double-digit rates for the third straight year...
...turn it upside down for a newborn infant? Urban voices the generosity of many older, first-time parents about that twist of fate. Says she: "There is that old biological clock ticking away. At 35, it is sort of written in the skies. All the odds go from one digit to two digits. But also there is the embarrassment-of-riches syndrome. Not just financially, but emotionally. You have an overflow of love and money that you just want to share with another person...
Actually, it will take a series of miracles to keep the deficits out of the twelve-digit range, which the budget document concedes "would impose extreme pressures on financial markets-[and] undermine the outlook for continued monetary restraint, reduced inflation and economic growth." To begin with, the estimate that the fiscal 1982 figure will stay a hair below $100 billion depends on the highly dubious assumption that Congress will enact further cuts in such programs as food stamps, welfare, Medicare and Medicaid to take effect in the remaining eight months of the year. The $91.5 billion projection for fiscal...
...between Volcker and Treasury Secretary Donald Regan burst into the open during separate appearances before a congressional committee. In testimony to the Joint Economic Committee, the towering, cigar-smoking Fed chairman argued that the Administration was following a loose fiscal policy that threatened to push budget deficits into triple-digit figures, and said that interest rates had begun to rise simply in anticipation of the Government's gargantuan borrowing requirement for later this year...