Word: manner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deposits in the ground, the allowance originally could not exceed the amount invested. But percentage depletion allowance, begun in 1926, bears no relation to the amount first invested. Instead, the tax-free 27.5 per cent applies to the income from the oil and gas products. Eventual recovery in this manner often goes far beyond the actual investment costs...
...some minor area, however, reforms are making progress. The President's proposal to change the method of taxing the elderly has been submitted as part of the Social Security amendments. It does not alter the revenue cost of the program, but merely redirects the relief in a uniform manner towards those who need it most--the poorest, who get the highest tax exemption, while the richest get the low exemption. It is this type measure, by which revenue changes but the balance remains the same, that stands the best chance of fullfilment in the current Congress...
CRIME With his china-blue eyes, wavy white hair and deferential manner, William Dale Archerd, 55, is the very antithesis of a Bluebeard. If the Los Angeles County district attorney's office is right however, the sometime hearing-aid salesman's penchant for marriage was matched only by his preference for murder. Last week he was in jail facing charges that he killed his nephew and two of his seven wives; the investigation also implicated him in the deaths of a third wife and two male friends. The suspected weapon: insulin.* The list of Archerd's wives...
...they have recognized (and rightly so) that their country can not depend on allies for its defense. Their experience has taught them the Machiavellian maxim that guarantees mean very little when the cannons speak. They are building a political place for Israel in the Middle East in the same manner in which their fathers worked a garden out of the desert...
...could sit in on a raga. Clad in a raw-silk tunic and sitting cross-legged amid a haze of incense, Menuhin might indeed have passed for a native fidllist, except that he did not rest the head of his fiddle on his toe in the traditional Indian manner...