Word: joints
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...figures assume that the taxpayer itemizes his deductions and subtracts 17% of his gross income - which is the national average for itemizers - before calculating his taxes. A further assumption is that married couples file joint returns...
...Joint Economic Committee of Congress, on the other hand, estimates that spending under current federal programs would total $346.4 billion in fiscal 1 976 ? which suggests that Ford's $46 billion deficit projection for that year may be an overestimate. There are involved technical differences in the calculations, but a scary deficit estimate does not hurt Ford's efforts to persuade Congress to hold down spending. Taxable income is the amount left over after all deductions and exemptions are taken. Considering the deductions, a family of four that has a taxable income of $6,000 typically has a gross...
...committee chairmen on the basis of seniority for the current two-year Congress, it decided to follow the lead of the House for the session beginning in 1977; at that time the caucus will select chairmen by secret ballot. The Democrats also voted to open all committee meetings and joint House-Senate conference deliberations to the public, except when committee members decide that they must be closed for any of four specific reasons: to protect national security secrets, foreign trade information, the reputations of individuals and the identity of federal agents or law-enforcement officers...
...West Germany;6.5 per cent. 8. Marshall Tito, denying that he is a millionaire. 9. $6.7 million apiece--and that's a bargain. 10. $3.75 million over five years. 11. Eleven. 12. Gas, of course. 13. Whether they wanted rooms for sleeping or for jumping. 14. They had a joint account. 15. A free revolver. 16. October 23,1929. 17. He "had a better year." 18. "Begging and other acts." 19. My bonus lies over the ocean, My bonus lies over the sea, Tey gave all the dough to the Frenchmen, And n w they've got nothing...
...civilian almost fell to blows last weekend--in a dispute over which of them should have given the order for a Navy carrier task force sailing toward the Indian Ocean to feint toward Vietnam, as a "warning to Hanoi." Gen. George S. Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Henry A. Kissinger '50, secretary of state, evidently had no disagreement on the desirability of such a "signal of American determination"--though Brown, who after all lacks Kissinger's training as a historian, did not specifically suggest that the Gulf of Tonkin should have been the task force...