Word: exempt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...addition to the advisory groups, Towers Perrin met with faculty members, exempt staff members and retirees to determine "What faculty and staff valued in the benefits package and the relative importance of each aspect of the package," according to the Resource article...
...even esteemed economists are not exempt from that most common of winning feelings: complete disbelief...
...tension between SDS veterans and newermembers was increasing. The students' protests hadplaced the league's tax-exempt status at risk...
...Deny visas to everyone and ban all but emergency aviation to and from Haiti. The latest sanctions again exempt commercial flights. Thus the army's wealthy supporting cast can leave at will to do business abroad -- and some of that business is conducted for the benefit of the guys with the guns. Those who have helped create the horror should be forced to remain in its vicinity...
...product of a different era. America's health-care system, in which workers get health insurance mainly through employers, began to evolve during World War II, when labor was scarce and wages were controlled. Employers started to compete for workers by offering health insurance, which Washington deemed exempt from taxes. That didn't matter much when the average family paid about $60 a year in federal taxes, but as taxes rose during the 1970s and '80s, workers and employers faced a strong incentive to substitute tax-free health benefits for taxable wages. This pushed up the price of health care...