Word: exempted
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...plan would make us more dependent on foreign oil in 2020 than we are today and would increase global-warming pollution more than 30%. Each new fleet of cars and trucks is using more fuel than the one that came before. Our oldest and most polluting power plants are exempt from clean-air standards...
...much touted 529 college savings plans aren't providing much shelter. The plans, whose earnings are exempt from federal and some state tax, came into wide acceptance about three years ago, just as the market was peaking. They now have $11 billion in assets, much of it stuffed into aggressive-growth portfolios--the ones that have fallen hardest. For one Arizona Family College Savings 529 plan, nearly a quarter of the assets are in funds that have fallen 30% to 60% since its inception...
...into stock fit here too, offering decent yields and, in the case of "converts," a shot at capital gains if the market shoots higher. Consider the Northern Income Equity fund. Some blue chips now offer dividend yields of 5%. For those in the top tax bracket, short-term tax-exempt municipal bonds and bond funds are a steal today, yielding an after-tax equivalent of 7% plus...
...guess I just thought it was silly that we were exempt from something we had to take anyway,” she wrote in an email message...
...Johnston Gate, a lone Middlesex County sheriff’s deputy used a handheld metal detector to check hundreds of people seeking entrance to the Yard. Even elderly women in wheelchairs were not exempt from a once-over with his beeping wand...