Word: presenting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...interrogations in the station house because the "isolation and unfamiliar surroundings" there created special pressures for the accused. Orozco's bedroom, White insisted, could hardly be considered unfamiliar to him. Moreover, the majority had made no effort to demonstrate that any of the psychological pressures in Miranda were present in Orozco's case...
...will not be easy. Tax exemptions and exclusions have seldom been repealed. Instead, in the past 50 years, Congress has opened myriad new tax shelters to accommodate taxpayers who feel aggrieved by somebody else's privilege. An unfortunate result is mind-numbing complexity: the present Revenue Code (1,200 pages) runs longer than War and Peace. Albert Einstein called the federal income tax "the hardest thing in the world to understand." Contemplating his own return, he remarked: "This is too difficult for a mathematician, It takes a philosopher...
...than 27½% in any case. Defenders of capital gains have a compelling argument: people must be encouraged to take risks with capital if a private economy is to thrive. On the other hand, many experts agree with Economist Joseph Pechman of the Brookings Institution, who holds that the present ceiling is too low. To discourage speculation in securities, the holding period might be extended from six months to one year. Congress also needs to redefine and limit the scope of investments eligible for capital gains. They now include not only securities and real estate, but ordinary dealing in timber...
...person would have to pay more than 50% of his total income in federal income taxes. Officials of the Nixon Treasury and many reform-minded Congressmen rightly fault that idea as merely papering over today's loopholes. The plan would end none of the questionable favoritism in the present law. Moreover, it would allow the rich to pay something akin to a cheap license fee for the right to go on using loopholes...
...Nudes. Also a neat little sum at the top-for the star. At present, her contracts call for $330,000 per picture plus a percentage of the gross-with a verbal stipulation that she will not be called on to appear undraped. "I have never appeared in the nude," she boasts. "It is a very personal thing to take off your clothes. I refused to do a nude scene in 100 Rifles, and for weeks the telegrams flew back and forth, arguing about who was going to get me to do it. Finally they gave up and had some other...