Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...argued that if Health Net researched ovarian cancer, this law would obligate it to allocate similar resources to other diseases. As one of the principal drafters of the ada and a practicing attorney with extensive experience in disability law, I can tell your readers that Swallow's conclusion is flat wrong. Nothing in the ada requires a company that spends money to find a cure for one disease to expend resources to research other diseases. CAROLYN P. OSOLINIK Washington...
...Forbes, the novelty of campaigning has worn off. Repetition is all. These days he doesn't give interviews; he endures them. A few months ago, he was the happy warrior on the trail; now he's a grim one, the flat-tax Terminator who repeats his lines by rote and marches relentlessly from event to event. While he has proved he has the fortitude for the race, some of the twinkle has gone out from behind those thick glasses...
...DOLE ALWAYS GETS A chuckle on the campaign trail when he complains that the flat tax would upset his wife, who has served as head of the American Red Cross, by eliminating her favorite tax break--the one for charitable giving. But this week Elizabeth Dole's relationship with the group is likely to bring an uncomfortable moment. She is expected to disclose that she didn't give as much to her own organization as she publicly promised she would, sources told TIME. She plans to write a check to the Red Cross for as much...
...wish I didn't keep making a connection between people who believe in a flat tax and people who believe in a flat earth. The vision I can't seem to get out of my head has Steve Forbes as both Ferdinand and Isabella, smiling his dorky smile under two different powdered wigs while economists from the Brookings Institution demonstrate with the same apple Columbus used that there would be a shortfall in federal revenues of $186 billion a year...
These visions of mine are, I know, anathema to the Bigger Pie wing of the Republican Party. The piemeisters, whether they talk about trickle down or supply side or a flat tax that doesn't apply to interest income or a repeal of the capital-gains tax, are believers in one simple proposition: the less rich people pay in taxes, the better off the rest...