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...energy but to save money. 1908 East 14th is a drab four-room frame house in a blue-collar neighborhood. It cost $4,000 eight years ago, but at the time, as the present tenant explains, "they were having some trouble keeping the paint on it. Great strips would peel off. They were flopping all over the place...
...told for a hundred years I shouldn't import. I can make it here.' It's a sort of conditioned reflex." Says Norman Glick, a member of the U.S. Commerce Department's trade facilitation committee: "The Japanese have protection in depth. As soon as you peel away one layer, you find another...
...reunion that Pym unobtrusively begins to peel the layers from her characters. Arriving at the office, Letty notices that the two men have spread themselves out, occupying the space that once held all four. She experiences again "the feeling of nothingness... as if she and Marcia had never existed." But her attention quickly shifts. "Looking around the room, her eyes lighted on a spider plant which she had brought one day and not bothered to take away when she left. It had proliferated; many little offshoots were now hanging down until they dangled over the radiator." Perceptions noted, then brushed...
...year ago the Carter Administration was preparing a proposal to tax capital gams at full ordinary-income rates, which would have meant a doubling of levies on many small and medium-size gains. Then Wisconsin Republican William Steiger, a panelist at the Time conference, introduced an amendment to peel the levy back to 25%, and to his own astonishment got a mighty bandwagon rolling. The House wrote into its tax bill a cut in maximum capital gains rates-though only...
Personal Injury Lawyer Lewis sought to try the case by the same negligence standard used in an ordinary whiplash suit. NBC should have foreseen that its movie might inspire violent crime, he maintained; therefore the network, like a homeowner who leaves a banana peel lying on his front stoop where someone could slip on it, should pay damages to the victim. Constitutional Lawyer Abrams, on the other hand, argued that his clients should be held liable only if the network actually intended to cause attacks like the one on Niemi...