Word: headwind
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sheltered from taxation). Such people typically have only meager net assets despite their hefty pretax incomes. Far from accumulating capital, they often have to borrow to put their children through college. They attain their levels of prosperity only after many years of gradually working their way up, bucking a headwind of ever higher tax rates. And as they approach their earnings peaks they find themselves paying tax rates that, measured by percentage of gross income, are on the same order as those actually paid by millionaires. The grace and security that come from possession of substantial assets remain...
...both favorites were left at the post, hopelessly beaten-for it is at the start, with jockeys flailing and horses driving hard, that quarterhorse races are won. Winner by a remarkable 1½ lengths was a lightly regarded chestnut colt named Pokey Bar, who shrugged off a 4-m.p.h. headwind and streaked across the dinky course in a record 20.1 sec. Pokey Bar returned $17.80 on a $2 win ticket, earned Owner Hugh Huntley of Madera, Calif., his.second All-American victory in three years, and the fat first-place purse...
...KENNEDY's eyeballs would have popped at some of the track feats at the stadium. He would have seen Harvard's Mark Mullin win the mile in 4:11.1 with teammates Jed Fitzgerald (4:12.6) and Ed Hamlin (4:13.1) placing 2-3 . . . this in the face of a headwind that chilled cheering spectators...
Stroking 42 against a headwind at the start, Navy settled down to 32, about the same as the Crimson, and kept its lead throughout the body of the race. In the final three-quarter mile sprint, Navy went up to 39 and increased its lead to a length and a half over the Crimson...
Fighting a persistent drizzle and a troublesome headwind, the varsity jumped to an early lead in the feature race and and was far enough ahead going into the turn to keep a few seats on the Tiger shell, overcoming the disadvantage of being in the outside lane around the bend...