Word: iras
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...less naive and, thankfully, more common. Ironically, to my mind, at least, it is responsible for more deaths. It realizes that no sane individual in the North or South of Ireland believes that it is in Ireland's interest to prostitute herself to the men of the provisional IRA, whose Marxist ideology and links with international terrorism are well known. But nevertheless, it subscribes to the view, especially just after a terrorist attack, that Something Must Be Done. This usually means tinkering about with the constitution, erecting new "forums," adding an "Irish dimension," or initiating what James Prior called "rolling...
...assume for a moment that in the country whose citizens financed the slaughter, there are at least some token reactions. While in America, I've noticed two clear lines of opinion, both of which ironically ensure that the IRA's chilling message that "we only have to be lucky once" will eventually come true...
...first is the real killer, and at times like these, it tends to keep itself to itself. It runs something like this: "Well, until the British leave Northern Ireland, and set Ireland free, there will always be violence. Just because the IRA's means are wrong, that does not mean that their grievance isn't just or noble...
...evidence at least suggests that it can; indeed, that it has. What terrorism thrives on is doubt; what violence lives off is drift at the center of government. As long as there is doubt about the real future of Ireland, the IRA will have a direct incentive for influencing every move in this fluid process in its favor. Every new proposal is greeted by a new attack, every initiative with an atrocity, every new Minister of State with a publicity coup. The most violence-free periods have been when it was quite clear that no constitutional flux was intended...
...lose the reductions they got in July 1983, when the third stage of the Reagan tax cuts took effect. Adjusted gross essentially is salary, interest and dividend income plus some additions-a portion of capital gains, for example-and minus such things as alimony paid and contributions to an IRA. For a couple with two children, personal exemptions and average itemized deductions would shrink an adjusted gross of $60,000 to a taxable income of around $42,200. Tax rates on the top slices of taxable incomes higher than $42,200 now range from 33% to 50%; under Mondale...