Word: flaws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...replace no Government car unless it had six years and 60,000 miles of service, and he never replaced his own official car. His idea was to get a medium-priced make, at no cost to taxpayers, from among those legally seized from dope peddlers. But there was a flaw in his calculation: the dope peddlers' cars were all Cadillacs and Chryslers...
...FLAW IN THE FIGURES...
...misleading flaw in the figures is that none of the new millionaires count on salaries alone. By whatever energy, invention or imagination they make their big stake, they keep it by taking careful advantage of the capital gains tax,* under which assets held for six months can be sold as a long-term capital gain and the profit taxed only 25%. A single man who invests his money in an apartment house, for example, then sells it six months later at a $300,000 profit, would have to pay $247,280 to the Federal Government if the profit was taxed...
Gladstone was the son of a rich Liverpool merchant. To an erratic, explosive brain, he joined (said his doctor) a body "built in the most beautiful proportion . . . head, legs, arms and trunk, all without a flaw, like some ancient Greek statue." Gladstone's first intention was to become a parson: he never quite forgave himself for being so weak as to become a Prime Minister. Religion was not his faith; it was his spouse, and he loved it so passionately that when he felt exhausted he would say quite naturally "not that he wanted...
...clue that will explain his cal nature. At the same time, however, the play is more than a search for the last place in a jig-saw puzzle. Johnson has much to say about the tendency of every man to see in others his own greatest flaw; about the difficulty of re-creating the image of a man from a variety of half-true impressions. Each narrator, whether friend or lover, sees only part of Swift, and even the whole account seems not enough for a true picture. Johnston ends his play with Swift Brushing away the fools and declaring...