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...like companies that buy their first computers and then decide they can forget about data-processing problems forever, the IRS before long found itself with old and outdated equipment. A plan to upgrade its machines was defeated in Congress during the 1970s, when the agency fell prey to suspicions generated by Watergate. Legislators feared that some day an Administration might use a centralized computer tax system to harass citizens. In January 1980 the IRS at last issued a call for bids on a new computer to replace its old Honeywell and Control Data machines. The contract was awarded to Sperry...
...course of two games on 41 shots faced. She held the Saints to a single score in the semifinals while shutting them out over the last 39-plus minutes of the contest. In falling to Minnesota, she nevertheless held the Gophers below their season scoring average and twice fell prey to turnovers by her defense in the zone...
...vicious circle of poverty would be more successful if they spent time in the poor nations to supervise firsthand the use of their funds. Eradication of poverty is primarily a humanitarian task, but it also has long-term political benefits for the developed world. The deprived are easy prey to rogue elements trying to incite hatred against the rich, and the result is general disorder and a disturbance of global peace. Sanjay Kath Ludhiana, India...
...regular tax code automatically lifts tax brackets and increases deductions and exemptions each year to reflect the higher cost of living and rising wages over time. Not the AMT. There have been patchwork fixes, but without an inflation adjustment, more middle-class families fall prey each year as their income simply keeps pace with costs...
...government is dishonest in this form of self-promotion because by disguising taxpayer-financed public relations statements as objective news broadcasts, the government makes a deliberate attempt to prey on Americans’ trust of the news media as a source of unbiased information. The Bush administration has, with pre-packaged news, stumbled on a most insidious breed of propaganda: by doing news programs the (dubious) favor of covering pro-Bush news for them, the administration has taken rabid self-promotion to new depths. In the process, the Bush administration has implicated itself in a dizzying conflict-of-interest, made...