Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...while Mondale's eventual choice may turn out to be only a modest plus or minus, the selection certainly bears watching. History shows that Vice Presidents are not doomed to obscurity: eight have replaced deceased Presidents, and eight have gone on to win the presidency on their...
...four winners-a housewife, a machinist, a manicurist and a hospital maid-are understandably elated: each will receive $263,095 a year, minus the 20% federal tax bite, for the next 21 years. Shortly after hearing that she had won, Weonta Fitzgerald, 64, quit her job as a cleaning woman at Benedictine Hospital in Kingston, N.Y. "I was broke, now I'm rich!" she exulted. But the biggest winner by far did not have to wait in line: New York State, which stands to reap an estimated $11 million in education funds from that one giant jackpot alone...
Second, the Olympics are a good place to let off the world's steam. Orwell criticized the Games as "war minus the shooting," but given the alternative, that seems no condemnation. There has always been a lot of sociological fretting about the bellicosity of sport, how smoothly the exercise of aggression transfers itself to swords and guns-most of which seems nonsense. But even if a line may be drawn from the playing fields of Eton to Waterloo, still the playing fields must be judged preferable; better to be akin to war than in one. What gets observers...
...Minus means test and tax exempt at age 50: each American receives monthly retirement check for life...
...including California, parole release has been abolished for most offenders in favor of a fixed, or "determinate," sentencing system. Under it, a judge must impose punishment from a narrow range of options set by the legislature or some administrative body, and an offender must serve all of the sentence, minus time off for good behavior. Gone are the old "one-to 20-year" sentences, which left parole boards to decide the real length of a term...