Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unlikely announcement in municipal government, Cambridge's only public hospital informed City. Manager Robert W. Healy last week that its revenues for this fiscal year will exceed its original estimates--to the tune of $11.3 million...
...succeed in reducing the scope of the $500-per-child tax credit, an enormous tax break for the wealthy would still loom. Democrats charge that more than 50% of the remaining $85 billion in tax benefits in the contract would still go to the 10% of families whose incomes exceed $100,000. The Joint Committee on Taxation estimates the $19 billion cut in capital-gains tax would average only $26.05 for taxpayers earning less than $100,000 but would mean an average reduction of $1,223.23 to those earning more. "It is just plain wrong," said House minority leader Richard...
...away. Mothers with high-powered jobs like Marcia Clark, the prosecutor in the O.J. Simpson case, may have the most to worry about. In a flurry of recent custody battles, women who don't conform to the Donna Reed notion of motherhood have lost custody to men who slightly exceed Homer Simpson's idea of fatherhood...
...most prosperous, taking with them their larger tax contributions. Those most likely to remain would include a disproportionate number of low-wage, low-tax workers, who rarely have the kind of jobs that come with good pensions. In no time the government's obligations to retirees would exceed its Social Security revenues, leaving it without funds to continue paying checks to the current crop of retirees or to those nearing retirement who were counting on Social Security. "The system is obligated to them," says Eugene Steuerle, an expert at the Urban Institute, a middle-of-the-road Washington research institute...
...Departments are stretched to the limit in terms of what they can offer," said Sal Tripani, modern language department chair. "Our large sizes far exceed the [recommended] number that is educationally sound...