Word: equalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Less generous indexing. Under full indexing, which goes into effect next year, the amount of income subject to a particular rate of tax is adjusted upward each year by a percentage equal to the inflation rate. Mondale, however, would index the incomes of families earning more than $25,000 a year only to the extent that inflation exceeds 4% annually. If the inflation rate is 5%, their incomes would be indexed...
...first, Salieri redoubles his own musical efforts in an effort to equal the younger man's work. But Mozart's brilliance, coupled with his rudeness, proves too much for Salieri. Salieri becomes obsessed by his own inadequacy: "All I ever wanted was to sing to God. He gave me that longing, then made me mute." With his rival's music never far from his ears, Salieri's frustration soon hardens to rage. Convinced that God has chosen Mozart as his voice on earth, Salieri vows to undermine the God who betrayed him by destroying the musical prodigy...
...strength and self-restraint in the face of trying provocations. And yet, the more controversial ideas this community can tolerate and the more unpopular speakers we can hear without disruption, the closer we will come to the highest ideal of a university. I hope that we will all be equal to this challenge...
...late, Shea--who has a conservative legislative record--has been getting into trouble during his showdown with Atkins. Over the summer, Shea has uncharacteristically backed liberal positions on the nuclear freeze, the Equal Rights Amendment, cuts in military spending, foreign policy in Latin America, and ways to reduce the federal deficit, the plans for the latter released last week in a 40-page statement released last week. He has shut up about the causes he pushed hardest for as a legislator: amending the Massachusetts constitution to outlaw abortion, killing gay rights legislation and supporting the death penalty...
Mulroney, on the other hand, campaigned like a lottery winner, smiling perpetually and pumping every hand in sight. He perfected a punchy stump speech, delivering it in French and English with equal ease. Mulroney's wife Mila, 31, turned out to be the election's second-best campaigner; pretty and vivacious, she charmed even jaded journalists. The Tory candidate shone in the three televised debates, especially when he attacked Turner for the Trudeau patronage plums. "You chose to say yes to old attitudes and the old stories of the Liberal Party," he charged. When the Prime Minister held...