Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...husband divided his time between visiting the hospital and trying to offset the effects of leaks. Then, last Friday night, Rockefeller himself disclosed that as a result of an Internal Revenue Service audit, he will have to pay an additional $896,173 in federal income and gift taxes for 1969-73, plus interest of nearly $125,000 and additional gift taxes of $7,545 for the first half of 1974. There was no hint of fraud of any kind...
Among other things, the auditors disallowed $1,245,247 of his deductions for business expenses and charitable contributions, added $146,229 to his taxable income for foreign-exchange gains and charged him additional gift taxes of approximately $83,000 for 1972,1973 and the first half of 1974. The effect of the settlement was to raise Rockefeller's federal taxes for the five years by 21%, from $4,212,974 to $5,109,147. During those years, his total income was about $20 million...
...there not a distinction between a gift to Hugh Morrow, who is on your personal staff, and one to Henry Kissinger, who had left your employ [as a consultant on foreign policy] to become President Nixon's Assistant for National Security Affairs...
...Tinker is the first to acknowledge, every supersedes owes its real velocity to its star. Mary Tyler Moore speaks for herself; her name is enough to attract 31 million viewers every Saturday night. Rhoda's secret is Valerie Harper, a soft-voiced, serious actress with a rare gift...
...some Hawaiians spent two weeks making and taping some music of the islands -"not really antique stuff," he says, "just Hawaiian drinking-and-good-time songs from before the war, the kind of thing you never hear back here." That is part of Cooder's unique gift: to make the country come together in its music, Delta to Dust Bowl, city to small town to island. This also makes him one of the most generative talents working in popular music today. And that, as the song says, is a natural fact...