Word: distinctives
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While this proposal is laudable, Bush’s dividend tax plan opens the door to a more fundamental reconsideration of corporate reporting: Should corporations be allowed to report their income in two distinct ways to investors and to tax authorities? Several countries other than the U.S. enforce so-called “book-tax conformity” to varying degrees so that results are reported uniformly to these two audiences. Recent trends suggest that now is an opportune time for the U.S. to revisit the rules that allow firms to describe their economic activity in different ways to these...
...That remains a distinct possibility in the high-stakes battle for dominance among Iraq's majority Shiite population. But it's a possibility for which Muqtada is ready. "I am not afraid," he says. "I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death...
Arts First originally had a different form, beginning Friday instead of Thursday and coinciding with the Undergraduate Council’s Yardfest, the first incarnation of Springfest. But that scheduling damaged both Springfest and Arts First, according to organizers; although they were distinct events with disparate purposes, they competed with each other in engaging the Harvard community...
Megan: I would second everything you said. There’s something so exciting about artists working together. We need for Harvard to create that kind of enivronment for artists, student artists. But I also love what you said about the sort of distinct culture that is Harvard. I never want Harvard students to think, “Gee, I can’t do theater in that little corner over there,” because some of the interesting stuff happens in those little corners...
...research also suggests that hatred is less likely to spread when distinct groups are in daily contact with each other because such groups often rely on each other emotionally and economically...