Word: poofs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...over tax relief for investors centers on a cut in the capital-gains tax, the 28% levy that you pay on stocks, bonds and other assets held more than a year and sold at a profit. The bad part is that while it would be relatively easy to install--Poof! Your tax rate is lower--what the Federal Government really needs to do is figure out a more complex but also more beneficial fix, one that adjusts for the ravages of inflation. Don't get me wrong. A cut in the capital-gains tax rate is a good proposal...
Majority leader Dole ordered his staff early this month to work something out. But just when they thought they had a deal--poof!--another hold suddenly materialized. Only this time, word quickly got out that it was the work of Minnesota freshman Rod Grams. After that revelation, it took only a few days to work out a deal under which the bill will come to the Senate floor. And although the bill's supporters were livid over the delay, no one is talking seriously about abolishing holds. That's because almost every Senator has used it at one time...
...postcard and -- poof! -- you are ready to write E-mail. Drop it in the Out box and -- presto! -- it's as good as sent. Check stock quotes, send faxes, review your phone messages. With this book-size device, Sony has quietly done what Apple's Newton conspicuously failed to do: made a "personal digital assistant" that pleases its boss. The whizzy interface, ironically, was built by folks from the original Macintosh design team...
Taking mid-terms, they have concluded, is the same process as casting a spell in Dungeons and Dragons: you memorize a lot of arcane nonsense, and once you use it--POOF!--it's gone...
...Year's Day -- poof! The European Community's single market took effect, freeing the movement of goods among all 12 countries. Across Western Europe, an estimated 63,000 customs workers found themselves looking for new jobs. As Retegui walked glumly through Irun's deserted halls, only a single clerk was at work, clearing a salmon shipment from Sweden, a non-E.C. country. In the distance, tractor trailers thundered down the highway, barely slowing as they approached the crossing. "Who could believe we would be working flat out through December," said union official Ricardo Urtizberea, "and then suddenly find ourselves...