Word: margin
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...support of the IRS policy. This is what was asked of Reagan in an Oct. 30 letter from Republican Congressman Trent Lott of Mississippi, who contended that the IRS practice was unconstitutional. When a summary of Lott's letter came to the President, he wrote in the margin, "I think we should" (make the policy change). That informal O.K. finally produced the Jan. 8 announcement...
...major task was simply familiarizing the public with the amendment itself. The Daily Oklahoman released the results of a poll showing that Oklahomans favored the ERA by a slim margin. In the same poll, residents were asked their opinion of this unidentified passage: "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex." Eighty percent approved, many not knowing that they were endorsing the wording...
...more than $100 million, testified that by fictitious sales of stock to his wife, he legally avoided paying any income taxes at all. National City Bank President Charles Mitchell admitted that the top officials of his bank had given themselves $2.4 million in interest-free loans to protect their margin accounts in National City's stocks. Of the $50 billion in new stocks issued during the 1920s, another congressional committee said, "fully half have proved to be worthless . . . fraudulent." And when Utilities King Samuel Insull carried thousands of investors into bankruptcy, he protested at the prospect of indictment: "What...
...efficiency of the present lottery system is at stake (only 80 per cent of students now get one of their three choices), then perhaps schemes to reform the lottery but preserve a significant margin of choice should be considered. But a random lottery simply enforces one more decision on students who have only advisory power at best in administration and education here...
...touchdown pass, again from Anderson to Ross, cut the margin to 26-21 with just 16 seconds left, but Clark sealed the Bengals' defeat by recovering an attempted onside kick...