Word: equalling
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...taxpayers. Thus Sheila Burke, who was then Dole's chief of staff, judged a straight repeal "suicidal"; it would open the G.O.P. to charges that it was giving away money to the rich. Some advisers favored coupling repeal with a provision giving workers an income tax deduction equal to the Social Security taxes taken from their paychecks. That would have been a boon to the middle class and some of the working poor, since Social Security taxes are levied on the first wages of $62,700 a year, and have become a grievous burden on some low-income families...
Bill Gates' full name is apparently William Gates III. And as we all know, he goes by Bill. According to the e-mail, if you convert the letters in "Bill Gates III" to their ASCII values and sum them, they equal 666, the biblical mark of the devil. (For those computer illiterates out there, ASCII codes are an international standard which assigns a number from 1-256 to each of the symbols on a standard keyboard...
...North Carolina, where Helms has much better name recognition than Gantt, the stakes in a debate are not equal...
...years of the Clinton Administration, when he got a Democratic Congress and they got a very big health-care proposal but not the tax cut or welfare reform he had promised. Now pollsters for both parties are finding a significant quirk when people are asked, all other things being equal, if they would rather be represented by a Democrat or a Republican in Congress. Right now Democrats are favored by several points over Republicans. But pollsters have also asked voters which party they expect to support in House races if Clinton is ensured a second term. Then the advantage shifts...
...disappearance of the idealized mate. Divorce statistics have undoubtedly helped. The main cause is probably the women's movement, which began in modern force not long after Vertigo originally came out and which, like all politically driven events, contained both smart and stupid moves. The basic thrust for equality, however, was impeccable, and it followed as the night the night, that if women were to be the equal of men they would be seen as equally flawed...