Word: general
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...current tax system discriminates against capital gains in one way: it ignores inflation. If a stock has doubled during a time when the general price level has also doubled, the real profit is zero, but you'll pay a capital- gains tax anyway when you sell. Of course, the same is true of interest -- an 8% return on a money-market fund at a time of 5% inflation is really only 3% -- but no one is proposing to do anything about that. Furthermore, no one is proposing to limit the deduction for interest paid. In a world with no taxes...
...Aside from the civil rights aspect, we are protesting against militarism in general," said Robinson. "Harvard has many classes on war, how about some concerning peace...
...Many [professors] complain either about the lack of coherence of the student body, i.e. the diversity in preparation and levels of understanding, or about the general lack of historical knowledge, especially in European and non-Western history," reported the Historical Studies Subcommittee in their five-year review issued last spring...
...Miss Emily Brent, an aged spinster, Andrea Thome manages to keep her back erect and her opinions prim even as her peers die in hideous fashion. John Ducey adopts the physical mannerisms of an old fogey perfectly, and his General Arthur MacKenzie shambles from place to place in a manner that is both disconcerting (Ducey's mouth hangs open for much of his time on stage) and endearing (when he apologetically requests a certain seat because "that's where my chair is at the Club...
Alejandro Bendana, secretary-general at the Foreign Ministry, said later that Nicaragua had no plans to cancel the elections. Commenting on possible renewed U.S. military aid to the Contras, Bendana added, "Obviously, if they let a bomb fall here we can't have elections...