Word: higher
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...pays any Social Security tax on earnings above that amount.) Since employer and employee each pay half of the tax, the maximum payment is $965 apiece. The tax rate and the wage base were already scheduled to rise in future years, but the House hiked them much higher and much faster. Someone earning $10,000 a year who now pays $585 for Social Security would pay $710 by 1987; someone making $42,600 and paying $965 today would be shelling out $3,024.60 by that same year (see chart...
Businessmen strongly oppose Nelson's scheme. But having them pay the lion's share of the increased taxes until the 21st century meets with the approval of Jimmy Carter?even though the extra costs would doubtless be passed along to consumers in the form of higher prices...
...plug tax loopholes. This year, as a candidate, he is calling for the restoration of the 100 phone call (it costs 200 to use a pay phone in Virginia), collective bargaining for public employees on a local option basis, lower electric bills and, in case of a fiscal crisis, higher state income taxes for the rich...
...signal physical changes in the body with beeps or flashing lights, Diamond has been able to train some patients at his headache clinic to raise temperatures in the hand by as much as 10° to 15°. As he explains in his recent book More than Two Aspirin (Follett; $8.95), higher temperatures mean an increased flow of blood there?and presumably a reduction elsewhere, including the head. Almost invariably, he reports, the technique stops headaches. Still another imaginative treatment has been introduced by Dr. Howard Kurland at Northwestern University (Quick Headache Relief Without Drugs; Morrow; $7.95). He applies strong pressure...
...moment has a powerful, almost mystical, emotional charge, and to raise the temperature still higher, Spielberg caps the scene by filling the sound track with an old and uncannily appropriate song from a Walt Disney movie. By then, Close Encounters is a celebration not only of children's dreams but also of the movies that help fuel those dreams. Of course, it is one of those movies. Spielberg has done what he set out to do: at the end of Close Encounters, the audience is sitting with him in the lap of the universe, ready and waiting for new magic...