Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year ($45,000 for single taxpayers) would lose the reductions they got in July 1983, when the third stage of the Reagan tax cuts took effect. Adjusted gross essentially is salary, interest and dividend income plus some additions-a portion of capital gains, for example-and minus such things as alimony paid and contributions to an IRA. For a couple with two children, personal exemptions and average itemized deductions would shrink an adjusted gross of $60,000 to a taxable income of around $42,200. Tax rates on the top slices of taxable incomes higher than $42,200 now range...
...approved after a lengthy strike that brought down Edward Heath's Conservative government in that same year, contains no mention of pit closings. (MacGregor and his allies have parried this charge with full page newspaper ads quoting statements by both Scargill and the 1974 report which concede that some minus must inevitably close...
...women's lacrosse team--minus two All-Americans and five All-Ivy players from a year before--dropped its season opener and was immediately written off by many observers, but proceeded to go on a 12-game winning streak and recorded its fourth straight Ivy title...
...potential sampling error is plus or minus 3%. When these results are compared with the results of previous polls, the potential sampling error is plus or minus...
Some came back maimed. One man who lost a foot began competing in track meets sponsored by the U.S. Amputee Athletic Association; he now holds two world records at different distances and can run 60 meters "just about two seconds slower than Herschel Walker." Another, minus a hand, looked for a job unsuccessfully, gave up and relied on benefits that are harder and harder to keep: "Maybe Social Security thinks I've lived too long." He goes on: "It's funny. When I see the Vietnamese who came over here, I just wonder how they start so fast...