Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worth $8.3 million. His fortune is based on a 14-bank family empire that was built on heavy borrowing. At the beginning of the campaign, he put his holdings into two trusts that are managed by his brother, C.H. Butcher. To help Jake meet interest obligations that will exceed his $50,000 salary as Governor by about $200,000 a year, Brother C.H. offered to take care of the debt service and to give him an additional $100,000 each year he serves as Governor. Jake quickly declined the offer, lamely insisting that his brother really meant to say only...
...Edward Lashman, director of external projects, said last week the level of nitrogen dioxide in Boston's air already rises above 200 micrograms per cubic meter several days each year. Lashman said Harvard promised earlier this year to operate the plant so that the level would not exceed 400 micrograms. He added he thought that was a safe limit...
Since imports exceed exports this year, maybe it should be stressed that Americans should purchase American-made products to stabilize and enhance the G.N.P. I disapprove of the way that the President is handling the economy, and as a wage earner I am disgruntled to see where the revenue from my taxes is going. Something must be done, too, to curb inflation...
FRANCE. Since 1977 some capital gains have been taxed, but France has a wide variety of exemptions - loopholes to critics - including capital gains from any source that do not exceed $4,600 a year and from the sale of a principal residence and of farm land...
...same good sense should apply to the shotgun marriage between Government and business, in Bryom's view. Instead of telling companies how to combat pollution or industrial accidents, the Government should set short-term and long-term goals then use a tax system to reward companies that exceed them and penalize firms that "fail. Exasperated by the managers and regulgators who think that they can make sweeping decisions from a distant pinnacle he likes to say, "Santayana defined fanatics as those people who know what they are doing is what God would be doing if he only...