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Dates: during 1990-1999
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SMOKING BREAK The IRS apparently figures that people who live longer pay taxes longer. That might explain why the agency will now allow smokers to deduct the unreimbursed cost of antismoking programs or prescription drugs as a medical expense on their returns--as long as total medical costs exceed 7.5% of gross income. (Nicotine patches and gum don't count.) To make a claim from previous years, file a 1040X amended return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Money: Jun. 28, 1999 | 6/28/1999 | See Source »

Performance at a high level in any sport is to exceed the ordinary human scale. But Pele's performance transcended that of the ordinary star by as much as the star exceeds ordinary performance. He scored an average of a goal in every international game he played--the equivalent of a baseball player's hitting a home run in every World Series game over 15 years. Between 1956 and 1974, Pele scored a total of 1,220 goals--not unlike hitting an average of 70 home runs every year for a decade and a half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PELE: The Phenomenon | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

...Ciollo described Muoio as a warrior that finished well and finished where he wasn't necessarily supposed to. "He always seemed to exceed expectations," Ciollo said...

Author: By Bryan Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dinneen, Clever, Ciollo Pace M. Track | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

...sheer amount of money Rudenstine has been able to raise stands as his other major achievement as president. With six months remaining, the University expects to exceed its goal by at least $100 million...

Author: By James Y. Stern, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Regarding `Rudy' | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

...maintain excellence is hard. To exceed it is even harder...

Author: By Jodie L. Pearl, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Wrestling Enjoys Historic Season | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

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