Word: jackpots
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After several series of three-and-outs, the Crimson once again hit the jackpot with four minutes left in the second quarter. On the second play from scrimmage on the drive, Palazzo, only 190 pounds, broke three tackles before turning on the Energizer battery and getting a 66-yard touchdown run to tie the game...
...Detectives almost immediately hit the jackpot in the interrogation room. After being read his rights, the suspect voluntarily incriminates himself in other Harvard larcenies. Later, victims will be able to identify some of the stolen items...
Time was, selling a tax cut to Americans was about as hard as selling lotto tickets on the day of a $50 million jackpot. Everybody wanted one, no matter how loudly the experts warned against it. Just the phrase "tax cut" had a pleasant, numbing effect on otherwise disgruntled voters...
...Bush's plan helps every taxpayer, especially the rich, Gore's is targeted at people with complicated middle-class lives. The jackpot winner under Gore would be a family making, say, $35,000 a year that has a child in day care (a tax credit of up to $2,160), another in college (a credit of up to $2,800), a sick mother in a nursing home (a $3,000 credit) and a retirement-savings plan (a federal match of up to $2,000). Gore would also expand the earned-income tax credit, a subsidy for people earning too little...
Time was, selling a tax cut to Americans was about as hard as selling lotto tickets on the day of a $50 million jackpot. Everybody wanted one, no matter how loudly the experts warned against it. Just the phrase "tax cut" had a pleasant, numbing effect on otherwise disgruntled voters...