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Next, Sasner sent a long pass parallel to the net from the left, and Simmons backhanded the puck past Kryspin...
...three ways that are better than other alternatives. The first would be a 3% threshold on the indexing of the income tax brackets. Taxes would continue to be adjusted every year to offset the effects of inflation but only to the extent that inflation exceeds 3%. This would parallel the 3% threshold on the indexing of Social Security benefits and would be a natural basis for a political trade between those who oppose any reduction in the growth of Social Security benefits and those who oppose any tax increase. By 1989 such a change in tax indexing would increase annual...
Director Joffe and screenwriter Bruce Davidson go to great pains to draw a parallel between Schanberg's abandonment of Pran and America's abandonment of Cambodia. When Schanberg is given an award for his Cambodian coverage, he gives a tear-filled acceptance speech laying the blame for Cambodia's agonies on the long-gone doorstep of the Nixon administration. Just afterwards Rockoff confronts Schanberg in the men's room, reminding Schanberg that the single-minded persistence that got him the award might also have resulted in the death of his friend...
...values, people underestimate us. But this is Utah's time." She is the current Miss America and finds it "refreshing there is a team that wins all of its games without getting drunk the night before." As the mythical national championship is a kind of beauty contest, a parallel here is hard to resist. Both Wells and the Cougars represent something of an alternative to scandal...
...written in a difficult foreign language. Printed in Japan, where most of the VCRS sold in the U.S. are manufactured, and replete with technical jargon, these booklets often contain such impenetrable prose as the following: "Never connect the output of the [recorder] to an antenna or make simultaneous (parallel) antenna and [recorder] connections at the antenna terminals of your receiver...