Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Brown's Dave Fillipine caught a crab, Bouncingthe flat part of the oar off the water. It was amistake that was not surprising because of therough waters, but unexpected because heheavily-favored Bears are universally recognizedas a crew of the highest caliber...
...Gingrich and Senate majority leader Bob Dole jointly announced the appointment of Jack Kemp, former Housing Secretary, to lead a task force that will hold hearings this summer and recommend legislation to simplify the tax system radically. Last week the Senate Finance Committee heard testimony on proposals for a flat income tax, with a single rate, a large personal exemption and few or no other deductions. One such plan is sponsored by House majority leader Dick Armey of Texas and another by Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, a candidate for his party's nomination for President. Another presidential hopeful, Senator...
Into this tax hell come proposals for salvation: everything from tinkering with the system to imposing a flat tax. The intellectual cheerleaders for the flat tax are Hall and Rabushka, both economists at Stanford's Hoover Institution. Their writings inspired the flat tax for which Jerry Brown won a flurry of attention during the 1992 Democratic primaries. Another disciple is House majority leader Armey, sponsor of the leading flat-tax plan now before Congress...
...came in a little flat," Hausman said. "We were expecting just to win because we played a lot stronger opponents in California. We got off to a slow start and never really gotinto the match...
...action-movie plot. Although spoofing the conventional action movie is hardly original, Talalay's failure to comment on or corrupt the form seems naive, and betrays Tank Girl, forcing upon her the burden of morals. It's ironic that the three dimensional characters of the comic book become flat, at least in their simplistic division between good and evil, in the medium of film...