Word: householder
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...still optimistic about the economy's long-term prospects, and not much worried about inflation. And the short-term danger is still that people get so worked up about their fading 401k's and rising heating bills ("the rise in the cost of energy has drained business and household purchasing power," he said) that they turn Japanese and bury their money in the backyard...
Sharon's visit was a prod to the bitter resentment still harbored in every Palestinian household over injustices dating back to Israel's establishment in 1948. To Palestinians, it is al-Naqba, the Catastrophe, in which Jewish forces--among them thousands of immigrants escaping persecution in Europe who had poured into Palestine--sent 800,000 Palestinians fleeing into Arab countries as refugees. The U.N. counts 3.7 million refugees today, including 1.2 million people living in 59 camps, many still clutching keys to former homes...
...mean the right way, with none of the slipshod mixing of the pinks and the reds that I see creeping into our culture these days. If called upon, I can also execute a crisp hospital corner on a top sheet. It used to be perfectly ordinary to learn these household skills from chore-savvy people like my mother, whose idea of recreation was to wash down the walls...
...distorted definition of rich that keeps those thresholds so low. In Chicago a two-earner household in which one is a rookie cop and the other a typical schoolteacher would together earn more than $100,000 a year. There's your rich...
...Bush plan at least raises some limits. The child credit, which he wants to double to $1,000, wouldn't begin to phase out until annual household income reaches $200,000--up from $110,000 for couples and $75,000 for singles. It's also likely that the threshold for converting to a Roth would jump to $160,000 and that the threshold for new Roth contributions would be indexed to rise with inflation. On another front, though, Bush is proposing yet another means test. Couples earning $160,000 would not be eligible for a $5,000-per-child deduction...