Word: growed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Beryl Sprinkel, chairman of Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers, forecasts that production will grow 10% more over the next five years than it would under the present tax code. One reason: consumers who save on taxes will have more money to spend and invest. A bigger factor is that the bill would remove the distortions that are created by the existing maze of incentives and exemptions. No longer will businessmen waste their ingenuity devising elaborate schemes to turn ordinary income into capital gains. Dollars will flow to the most productive uses rather than being diverted into agricultural enterprises designed...
...momentum for reform began to grow. Senator Bradley, who never got over his astonishment that as a basketball star for the New York Knicks he had been a "depreciable asset" to the team's owners, went shopping for a House partner interested in reform. In the spring of 1982 he and Richard Gephardt of Missouri proposed a code with low rates and few deductions. New York Congressman Kemp, a prime architect of the 1981 tax cuts, later teamed up with Wisconsin Senator Robert Kasten to write a Republican bill that embodied many of the same principles. But none of these...
...make business even rougher for AT&T's competitors. | That is because of the fees called access charges that carriers pay to the Baby Bells, whose equipment connects consumer phones to a long- distance carrier. For AT&T's rivals, these fees are rising fast, and will probably grow even faster to pay for the new equal-access connection. In many cases, access fees have jumped from about 10% of long-distance retailer revenues two years ago to more than 50% today. Moreover, the sudden price hikes are coming just as the carriers must further modernize their equipment to take...
...only guess at the psychological effects of names (What happens when that girl Howard reaches an age to be interested in other Howards?), but it seems reasonable to suggest that a boy named John will grow up differently from one named Cuthbert. He is less likely to be beaten up by his schoolmates, for one thing. Fashions change, though, as Gertrude gives way to Marilyn, and Marilyn to Debbie; a name that would have seemed weird a generation ago, like Kimberly, becomes a cliche...
Some names have a special kind of imprint. The famous Miss Hogg, whose father cruelly named her Ima, had good reason to grow up scowling, but maybe she would have even if she had been named something sweet, like Charlotte. Anyone named James Oliver Buswell IV carries his parents' announcement of a certain view of the child's place in the world, but the effect of such a view probably differs considerably from one person to another. Someone with a name like Otto inevitably knows the burdens of an ethnic heritage, but so, presumably, do Madonna Ciccone and Fernando Valenzuela...