Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...multiwarhead land- and sea-based missiles each side is permitted. To stay within the limit, it must either retire and disable an older 16-missile Poseidon sub or destroy at least 14 Minuteman land missiles. Hard-liners argued against taking either course; they wanted the U.S. to exceed the limit deliberately. Reagan chose a halfway measure: mothballing or converting a Poseidon rather than cutting it up as the treaty requires...
...Middle-class and lower-income families would have to pay tax on many types of income that now escape federal levies. Unemployment compensation, workmen's compensation for injuries, and miners' black-lung benefits would be fully taxable, while at present, unemployment payments are taxable only to families whose income exceeds $18,000 a year and the other two types not at all. Employees would have to include in taxable income $120 a year of medical-insurance premiums paid by their bosses if single, $300 if married and filing joint returns. Of particular concern to the middle class, individuals would have...
...contributions could be deducted in most cases in full, but only if a taxpayer itemizes expenses; present law allows a deduction of as much as $300 next year, even if the taxpayer has no other itemized deductions. Medical expenses would continue to be deductible to the extent that they exceed 5% of gross income...
...million in penalties assessed against General Electric, for example, amounts to less than eight hours' worth of profits for the company. Daniel Fischel, director of the economics program at the University of Chicago law school, points out that the gains a company reaps from violating the law sometimes exceed the penalties, making it the most economically efficient thing...
...year-old farmer on the tiny Bangladeshi island of Urirchar. "First came the dark and the menacing clouds. Soon the wind started whistling ominously. Then the heavy rains began to fall." At first Yakub thought with relief that the torrents might disperse the stifling heat, which can exceed 100 degrees F at this time of year. But the downpour quickly gained greater and still greater force. As the alarmed farmer walked out of his hut, he came upon his neighbors gathering in the night. There was frightened talk that Danger Signal No. 9, a cyclone warning calling for immediate evacuation...