Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dukakis spokesman said that the Legislature Tax Cap Bill is similar to the CLT tax cap, in that all revenues collected in excess of the cap would triger tax cuts...
Unlike the CLT proposed tax cap, however, the legislature cap cuts "sends the excess tax cuts back to the taxpayers fairly by increasing flat personal exemption 5 percent for everyone," she said...
...rubble of Reykjavik are the makings of a deal that might have been, and a deal that might yet be. Until now, the idea of a "grand compromise" < has always been an abstraction: the U.S. would curtail the Strategic Defense Initiative in return for significant reductions in the wretched excess of Soviet missiles that helped provoke SDI in the first place. But no one knew exactly how far the Soviets would go to achieve a bargain. There was good news out of Reykjavik: they might go further than even some proponents of the grand compromise had predicted...
...After all, it is paper more than celluloid that allows him to live in the style of a Down East grand seigneur. The family occupies a 23-room, 129-year-old house ! surrounded by a black iron fence with interwoven designs of bats and spider webs, installed in an excess of whimsy by the owners. The place is within a mile of the down-at-the-heels section of town where the Kings began their odyssey. It has an eccentric charm appropriate to the tenants: one cupola is conical, the other square. Tabitha, 37, works in a spacious front room...
...Gotta Say Yes to Another Excess...