Word: partially
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...danger, people still want to own seafront property. And why not? They are still protected -- and encouraged -- by knowing that they can write off storm damage on their taxes.* In many cases, they can depend on federal flood insurance for at least partial reimbursement in case of disaster. Environmentalists believe the insurance program actually encourages building in high-risk locales. Says Town Councilman Neil Wright, of Surfside Beach, S.C.: "It's an incentive to build in dangerous places. The feds need to change the rules...
Several of the corporate deaths indeed seem to fit that pattern. A partial listing of recent victims...
...taxes."Last week nine-year-old Carmin Fisher of Junction City, Ore., found out that the Internal Revenue Service had seized the $70.76 in her account at a local bank. Her grandmother Bettye Fisher received a bank statement indicating that the IRS had taken the girl's money as partial payment for a delinquent tax bill of $21,182 owed by her grandfather Charles Fisher. Since the age of two, Carmin had been putting pennies into a coffee can labeled with another adage reflecting Franklin's sentiments -- A PENNY SAVED IS A PENNY EARNED -- and gradually transferring the money...
...partial scholarship to Harvard and was admitted to the Minnesota bar in 1932. Although a Republican, he backed Hubert H. Humphrey's campaigns. Humphrey later backed him for a seat on the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which he held for 11 years...
Hungry drivers gobble breakfast, often an Egg McMuffin, from Styrofoam cartons and slurp coffee from no-slosh mugs. Others balance checkbooks, do crossword puzzles and dictate letters and grocery lists into pocket-size tape recorders. Hot summer weekends offer an opportunity for passengers to take partial charge of the car. Inching along to the approach to the George Washington Bridge between New Jersey and Manhattan, occupants of cars without air conditioning who face delays of more than an hour hold the doors open for a little circulation...