Word: longer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...which men are always the hosts and women are always the guests. Harvard and the world at large have been, since the beginning of human history, men's turf, to which women gain access by currying male favor. In most parts of the outside world, this sexism no longer stands front and center...
...most part been phased in. While there isn't a lot that's new this year, lawmakers have plenty of big new ideas. They always do. Some want to lower the capital-gains tax rate, now 20% at the federal level for most people who hold an asset longer than one year. That's down from 28% a few years ago, and it could be pushed to 15%. Another hot topic is the so-called death tax. Republicans want to eliminate the tax on estates, which can reach rates as high...
...take stock of your investment portfolio. If you've sold securities at a gain, consider weeding out some losers--offsetting taxable gains with an equal amount of losses and taking an additional $3,000 in losses against ordinary income. The first to sell are those you've held longer than a year. Long-term losses must first be applied against long-term gains. But once those have been offset, you may apply remaining long-term losses against short-term gains, allowing you to cancel a gain taxed at as much as 39.6% with a loss that should save only...
...Batman Returns with a smile on your face, this film is a beautifully dismal glimpse into Burton's newest alternate universe, where supernatural evil is prompted by human vice, and the consequences are so relentlessly gory that even the trees bleed. If only to let the blood flow longer and more freely (even in one gratuitous scene, from the implied decapitation of a little boy), this version of Sleepy Hollow expands significantly and more disturbingly on the original. Irving's tale becomes entwined in a complicated plot of greed and corruption, a horrifying subplot explaining the psychological warping of Ichabod...
While the football teams for both schools no longer are among the cream of the country's crop, as they were a long, long time ago, the old rivalry still rekindles itself once a year with a fervor not seen the rest of the annum...