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...most regressive taxes that government collects. An estimated two-thirds of all workers, especially younger ones and the working poor, pay more Social Security tax than federal income tax. In 1991 a family of four earning half the median U.S. income--$43,000 that year-paid 4.8% of its meager earnings in income tax, but 12.4% to Social Security. Those figures, it is true, include the half share of Social Security taxes supposedly paid by employers--and so they should, say economists; in reality the worker pays the whole tax. A business owner who must pay an amount equal...
...pariah by the narrow-mindedness of others. She is betrayed and abandoned by friends and lovers; her children remain outcasts by association; she is destroyed by the death of those dearest to her. Vienna is, above all, a woman for whom brilliance and sensuality provide a painfully meager shield against the truculence of fate...
Offensively, the Bulldogs are struggling, currently averaging a meager 56.9 points a game, compared to the Crimson's league leading 79.2 average. Yale is shooting a dismal 33.9 percent from the field worst in the Ancient Eight...
...were issued special rations of canned meat, condensed milk, juice, crackers, tea and a Sterno can, so you could heat up kasha or rice with the canned meat. All I saw our soldiers eating in Chechnya was pearl barley with a bare hint of meat. Looking at this meager fare, I had the impression that we must have eaten up all the army's stores of dried rations in Afghanistan and that no one had bothered to produce any since then...
...director of central intelligence but the Secretary of Defense. And what finally cost him his job, associates say, was that he spent too much time playing a defensive game. He got into fights with Senators over minor items in the $28 billion intelligence budget and gave out meager punishments to officials who had ignored warning signs that agent Aldrich Ames was a Soviet mole. Even worse, large parts of the CIA's operation bored Woolsey, and its insular culture frustrated him. He once complained to an associate that the agency "needed a psychiatrist, not a manager." Senior agency hands were...