Word: leape
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...present top rate of 49% would help mainly people in (or above) the 50% tax bracket, who are more likely to own stock and other assets. To be in that lofty bracket, one needs taxable income of about $40,000 or more. But a lot of "average" taxpayers leap into the higher brackets a few times in their lives-when they sell a house, a farm, or the stock that Aunt Tillie left them; or when they collect profit-sharing or stock-purchase funds from their employers. For them the benefits of Steiger could be significant. Examples...
...that all those on trial were militant Red Brigades members who assumed "collectively and in entirety responsibility for every one of its past, present and future actions." The kidnap-murder of former Premier Aldo Moro this spring by other Red Brigades terrorists, declared one of the defendants, was "a leap forward of high quality." Even as the jury was deliberating, two gunmen followed former Antiterrorist Squad Chief Antonio Esposito, 36, onto a Genoa bus and shot and killed him before horrified passengers. They then drove off in the car of a waiting accomplice. Meanwhile, the police have had little...
Girls' athletics have become an accustomed part of the way of life in Cedar Rapids. At a recent girls' track meet, runners, shotputters, hurdlers, high jumpers pitted themselves, one by one, in the age-old contests to run faster, leap higher, throw farther. For many, there were accomplishments they once would have thought impossible. A mile relay team fell into triumphant embrace when word came of qualification for the state finals. Team members shouted the joy of victory?"We did it!" ?and then asked permission to break training: "Now can we go to the Dairy Queen, Coach?" Granted...
...voted last week by the Postal Rate Commission averages 25.5%. First-class postage goes from 13? to 15? (vs. 6? as recently as 1971). The cost of second-class mail for magazines and newspapers will jump 29.6%. The minimum rate for mailing a 2-lb. package parcel post will leap more than...
...said. "Baryshnikov is joining our company." At the American Ballet Theater it was the dancers who wept when Mikhail Baryshnikov gathered them together after last Wednesday's performance to say goodbye: "It is now or never. I have to work with Mr. B." For A.B.T. Baryshnikov's leap to Balanchine is a profound loss; "Misha" was their inspiration as well as their star, who embodied the best that the brilliant but erratic troupe could achieve...