Word: inherit
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...G.O.P. revolutionaries have also voted to reduce taxes on the less than 1% of Americans who inherit property worth more than $600,000, a reduction that would cost the Treasury $27 billion during the next decade. Capital-gains-tax reductions directly benefit only the 7% of mostly wealthy households that profit each year from the sale of stocks, real estate and investments other than their home. Meanwhile, the Republican Congress has voted to raise taxes on the working poor by cutting the earned income-tax credit...
...apocalyptic fervor. Ordinary Jews yearned for a savior who would lead them in a holy war against the oppressive Romans and a corrupt aristocracy, typified by the hated King Herod. Some scholars believe that Jesus was one of many political rebels in Palestine. His proclamation that the meek would inherit the earth was, in this view, not a dream of eschatological hope but a here-and-now demand for a new political order...
Since rotifers reproduce asexually, a daughter should inherit all her mother's genes...
...study, scientists analyzed DNA from pairs of brothers, both of whom were gay, in nearly three dozen families with a history of homosexuality on the mother's side. Focusing on the female X chromosome that men inherit from their mother (they also get a male Y from their father), the researchers found that two-thirds of the gay siblings shared a distinctive pattern along a segment of their X chromosome. Scientists say the possibility is remote that this genetic pattern would appear by chance...
Since Buchanan's campaign began to pick up steam over the summer, the mimicry has become more obvious. On July 11, Buchanan pledged in Des Moines, Iowa, to reduce "the confiscatory inheritance tax now imposed on American family farms"--a populist-sounding gloss on a measure that would benefit those who inherit between $600,000 and $5 million. Four days later, Gramm promised on CNN "to do something about inheritance taxes, which are now confiscatory." In September, Buchanan called for a rollback of congressional pensions in the wake of Senator Bob Packwood's resignation, only to be echoed by Lamar...