Word: impacting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...effect. Uncle Sam rewards big spenders much more than those who save. If a person earns $1,000 and spends it, that income is taxed only once. But if he saves the $1,000, he generally pays additional taxes on the interest the money earns. The combined impact of taxes and inflation can make saving a money-losing proposition. Borrowing, in contrast, is a savvy strategy because interest payments on debt are usually tax deductible...
...boasted to the music press about being gay and claimed that he first met his wife, an aspiring fashion model from America named Angela Barnett, "when we were both laying the same bloke." Whether it was true did not matter. It was the image that mattered, and the impact that counted...
During this period, he also reunited with Zowie, now answering to Joey?David and Angie divorced in 1980?who lived with him and went to school in Berlin. "Joey definitely influences the work I do," Bowie says. "Just knowing he's there has left an impact on my music, and he's more influential than anything else in making me try to cut a path through the crap...
...native insists students learn much more at a lower level. "The temptation especially as the presidential race gets nearer is to join a candidate like Mondale but if you instead work for a councilor or a state representative, you'll learn a lot more and have a lot more impact...
...weird, edgy stuff, raucous and paranoid by turns. On one side it descends from the Cuban artist Wifredo Lam, whose images of cannibal nature-all claw, tooth and bone-were a significant, though now unfashionable, part of the impact surrealism made on New York in the 1940s. On the other it comes out of a native, down-home strand of buckeye humor, folk forms that verge unconsciously on surrealism: tall Texan stories and Bible Belt grotesqueries. A zoo of critters lurks in Alexander's paintings: snakes preying on rats, rats eyeing scrofulous cats, and so on up the food...