Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flood started as a trickle in 1974, when the Government began permitting them for taxpayers who did not belong to a pension plan where they worked. But the flow of money into the accounts became a torrent in 1982, after Congress extended the program to virtually everyone. Under the current rules, working taxpayers may put as much as $2,000 a year into an IRA and deduct the contribution from gross income when filing their federal tax return. For those in the 50% bracket, it means an immediate saving of $1,000 in taxes for their $2,000 contribution. Savers...
...critics are raising their voices. Among them is the mayor's least likely detractor: himself. After a flood of revelations about corruption in New York City government, the feisty Koch came forth last week with an uncharacteristic mea culpa. Said he: "I am embarrassed. I am chagrined. I am absolutely mortified that this kind of corruption could have existed and that I did not know...
...where as many as 22,000 people were evacuated when a levee on the Yuba River suddenly burst. By week's end worried officials in areas north of San Francisco were casting a nervous eye on brimming reservoirs. All of which has left Donald Neudeck, California's chief of flood operations, marveling at nature's sometimes grim capriciousness. "A little over a week ago," he says, "we were in the throes of a drought...
...over house roofs and down some stairs or other, to roll on the grass in a nearby park." On the procedure itself: "The man, whose face looked like soiled marzipan, said he was going to give me an anesthetic; lie still . . . This he inserted in me, letting loose a flood of icy water, the anesthetic whose effects lasted a few seconds...
Alarmed by the flood of adverse publicity abroad, Soviet authorities moved against Shcharansky. His 1978 trial was a major step in the Kremlin's systematic destruction of human-rights groups. To frighten other Soviet citizens from informing foreigners about dissident activities, the prosecution charged Shcharansky with spying for the U.S. Although President Carter issued a formal denial that Shcharansky had ever been employed by American intelligence, he was sentenced to three years in prison and ten in labor camps...