Word: half
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contribution was only about $1,000 a year. Throughout the 1950s and '60s, it ranged from $45 to $374.) If Social Security were all she had to live on, it would be unthinkable to ask her to take less. But because she has income above $25,000 a year, half her Social Security benefits will be subject to tax. Would it be cruel or unfair, when so many are homeless and when the Government is spending $150 billion more each year than it has, to subject her full benefit to tax? Exposing both halves of the Social Security benefit...
Finally, raise the excise tax on gasoline. A 25 cents-per-gal. hike would raise about $25 billion a year -- but would still price our gasoline at well under half what it costs throughout Europe and Japan. When the U.S. was a net oil exporter and the world's dominant economic force, we could afford to be cavalier about cheap gasoline. But we're now in debt up to our eyeballs, and we're back to severe dependence on imported...
...encourage the world financial markets to lower our interest rates. Between the added tax revenue and lower interest on the national debt, the deficit would be cut more than a third. More to the point, there would be the reasonable prospect that the national debt would grow only about half as fast as GNP. So, gradually, over the next decade we'd find ourselves on ever firmer ground...
...Sandinistas' most salient achievements have been to consolidate their power, build a formidable military machine and suppress dissent. While the Sandinistas claim they could triumph in any election, Nicaraguans are voting otherwise with their feet. More than 500,000 have fled to the U.S. and Honduras, and half again as many are expected to flee during the next year...
Around the country, St. Ignatius' plight has become a familiar one. For rural hospitals, dwindling federal money is often far more damaging than it is for more visible inner-city counterparts. Of the more than 300 U.S. hospitals that have been forced to close since 1983, about half have been in rural areas. The American Hospital Association estimates that nearly 70% of those still in business are financially ailing. Though Washington recently announced new Medicare reimbursement policies that will boost payments for patients who incur exceptionally high costs, the Senate Special Committee on Aging reported last month that the crisis...