Word: exceed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Treasury would also make deductible only those medical expenses that exceed 10% of an individual's income, v. 3% now-an idea that is sure to touch off howls of anger. Further, banks would have to withhold in taxes 20% of the interest paid to savers. At present, say Treasury officials, the Government loses $1.4 billion in taxes each year because taxpayers do not report interest...
...plant is expected to exceed area noise standards at night even though, according to a statement adopted by the BRA board yesterday, the project includes noise control devices costing a total of $5 million...
...additive without governmental intervention. The FDA's action on saccharin is therefore well advised as prudent preventive medicine. Its further decision to permit the sweetener to be sold as a nonprescription drug recognizes the fact that there may well be people for whom the benefits of taking the sweetener exceed its possible risks...
...basement, watering the lawn when it reaches a given aridity, locking the front door at night -require the addition of various switches, sensors and motors that can send a house-proud hacker's outlay soaring. Says James Warren, a California microcomputer consultant: "You keep adding components until you exceed your yearly income...
...required-a common device for upping hospital bills. The carrot-and-stick part of the program involves trying to persuade hospitals to draw up accurate budgets a year in advance and then to abide by them. Blue Cross will pay the agreed sum. If a hospital's expenditures exceed budget, its management will be stuck with the job of finding money elsewhere. If it keeps expenses below budget, the hospital treasury can pocket the difference...