Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...local taxes, including the property tax. Treasury I had proposed that workers must consider as taxable income various fringe benefits, such as health and life insurance; Treasury II will probably recommend that most such benefits escape taxation. Contributions to charities will remain deductible, but probably only if they exceed 1% of an individual's adjusted gross income...
...varying combinations of spending cuts in about 100 meetings with shifting coalitions of Senators. But the voting lineup kept coming out the same. Faced with almost unanimous Democratic opposition, Dole needed every Republican vote. But ten to twelve Republicans adamantly refused to approve any military increase that would exceed the inflation rate...
...Damascus so far has refrained from moving its units into the territory abandoned by Israel. Said Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin as he watched the pullback: "I hope the Syrians understand we have certain limits, and we will not be able to stay on the sidelines if they exceed them." Earlier in the week the Israeli Cabinet had voted to complete the three-stage withdrawal from Lebanon by early June, but the Israelis were also setting up observation posts and positions just north of the border...
...reason for this view is that the Sandinistas have not hesitated to intimidate their neighbors. Washington sometimes inflates the menace posed by Nicaragua's Soviet-aided military buildup; Reagan was simply wrong when he declared in 1983 that Managua's armed forces exceed those of all other Central American countries combined. But, counting full-time soldiers and militia on active duty, the Nicaraguan army of 62,000 is by far the largest of any single country in the area. Nicaragua has 150 tanks; Guatemala has ten and the other Central American nations none at all. Though the Sandinistas are deficient...
...fury of a victim can exceed his skill at handling a weapon defensively. A Kansas City couple, Thomas Hill, 76, and his wife Lillian, 72, were surprised by an intruder in their home. Thomas picked up a pistol off a table and fired. The intruder grabbed the gun. Thomas pulled a second pistol out of his pocket and tried six shots. The robber seized that gun too. Lillian emerged from the kitchen and squeezed off three more shots. Not one bullet hit the invader, who escaped with all three guns. As he fled, he avoided three more rifle shots from...