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Exemptions and deductions. The personal exemption for each taxpayer, spouse and dependent would nearly double at the outset, to $2,000 from $1,040. In later years the exemptions would, as now, be "indexed" for inflation; that is, the exemption would rise each year by the same percentage that consumer prices go up. The so-called zero-bracket amount would be raised to $4,000 for couples filing joint returns, from $3,670 now. That is the amount of income, after personal exemptions, that is freed from tax. For people who do not itemize deductions, it is equivalent...
...Oilers, hoping to repeat as National Hockey League champions, were looking to put their powerful offense into gear from the outset of the best-of-seven series. The Flyers, with only one player with previous experience in the championship round, wanted to keep it tight...
...From the outset, the protesters have defeated their own cause through their choice of tactics. Repeatedly, the students have vowed to continue their vigil until Columbia's trustees promise to sell the University's $32.5 million invested in corporations doing business in South Africa. In the process, they have placed both the trustees and themselves in a paradoxical predicament, even if Columbia is prepared to compromise, it cannot make any meaningful concessions under duress...
Celebrities by definition have to be famous. Nothing says they have to be liked, and Richard Schickel's appraisal of fame is anything but a fan's notes. This is, he confesses at the outset, "a single-issue book," and the issue is the battle for the soul of a culture seduced and battered by machinery that puts image before substance and claims before creativity...
...Maine Republican had each hankered to write a spy novel. Both are experienced authors (Hart, 48, has written two books about politics; Cohen, 44, has two volumes of nonfiction and one of poetry), and they stuck to an outline jotted down on the back of an envelope at the outset. The result, to be published in May, is The Double Man, a Washington potboiler about a U.S. Senator on a trail of international intrigue. "It was a novel approach to bipartisanship," cracks Cohen. If only the Government ran so smoothly...