Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Moving away from capital gains, the big new item is the way you get treated when you sell a house. Under the old rules, you paid no tax on a gain from the sale of your residence so long as you rolled the entire gain into another, more expensive house. You got a one-time exclusion of $125,000 if you were 55 or older. That exclusion typically was used late in life by empty-nesters...
...shot was a little bigger, you'd see that in the picture I'm actually wearing a striped sweater, my first true item of clothing in the new genre. It is an appropriate, conservative entry into the world of the racing stripe, because: a) the sweater was a gift, and b) the sweater is from The Gap. Still, it is a first step in the struggle to get back in tune with the times, a struggle I will fight with varying degrees of intensity for the rest of my adult life...
...best item on the menu...
Personally, there is only one item I object to and that is where I advocate the players should not eat bananas. This should read "unripe bananas" as I have no objection to the fruit when it is ripe...
...Your item "Larry The Shrinking Violet" noted that I had dropped by a party held by Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen the night of the Administration's NAFTA victory. I was en route to a taping of my show at CNN, and I was not wearing a "cozy white warm-up outfit," as you said, but my usual on-air uniform: dress shirt, tie, suspenders, respectable dark dress trousers and my favorite baseball jacket, which celebrates Japan's Nippon Ham Fighters team. That didn't seem to bother anyone; President Clinton even asked where he could get a jacket like mine...