Word: proof
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Then came Monday, when the White House learned that House minority leader Dick Gephardt was planning to support the bill. That would open the way for nervous Democrats to get behind it in droves, maybe even enough to give it a veto-proof majority. It also threatened to leave Al Gore stranded as apologist for the taxman in the next Democratic presidential primaries, which potential rivals like Gephardt and Kerrey would be happy to see. That was enough for Clinton. On Tuesday he went public with his turnaround. On Wednesday the bill rumbled out of Ways and Means with...
...individual taxpayer, Kerrey-Portman is a mixed bag. One of its more controversial parts would shift the burden of proof in civil tax court cases from the citizen to the IRS. But of the 120 million individual and corporate returns filed each year, no more than 30,000 end up in tax court. Because settlements are reached in most of those cases, just 1,500 go to trial. At the earlier stages of a dispute, including the audits faced annually by 2 million filers, citizens would still be required to produce records to refute IRS claims. And the change would...
Faculty members cite the "intellectual ferment" sweeping the campus as proof that Jiang's visit will benefit Harvard...
...only as interpreter and creator, but as a sort of envoy. If the warm and consistent applause, culminating in a standing ovation, can be taken as a testament, the audience left not only pleased with Kissel's performance, but with a favorable impression of new music and as proof of its enduring vitality.Kathryn M. VerdirameCLASSIC CONTEMPORARY: MARY E. KISSEL '99 performed to an enthralled crowd...
...team that earlier in the season had been plagued by an inability to score, this win added to the rising proof that those days appear to be a mere memory...