Word: prospective
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...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 apply only to individual taxpayers, not companies. All the same, critics are worried that in a system based on voluntary compliance, just the prospect of less aggressive enforcement will tempt more people to fudge. And if taxpayers were not required to produce their records in court, the IRS might resort to more intrusive methods of fact gathering--for instance, squeezing information from brokers, clients and ex-spouses. Digging through your own checkbook ledgers would...
Unless the President can negotiate a compromise with Republicans on a plan to reform the IRS in the next few weeks, political commercials like the one Luntz dreams of will be saturating the airwaves come next year's midterm congressional elections. It's a prospect that scares Democrats all over town. Except, that is, for one of the most influential of all: Secretary Rubin. He knows that an anti-IRS bill backed by the G.O.P. leadership will move to the House Ways and Means Committee this week, but he has refused to budge on a central Republican demand: that...
...least Dolly was cuddly. The prospect of headless frogs, or even headless humans, has ethical guardians, um, up in arms. "If you create bodies without heads ? well, they're not slaves, I'm not sure they are humans," says Jeffrey Reiman, professor of philosophy at American University in Washington. Good thing he gave us a heads...
...prospect of this kind of clash helps explain why White House officials, who grow exceedingly sensitive in discussing anything that involves the First Lady, are vague about what will come out of her latest endeavor. Hillary herself raises a wide range of possibilities: policy recommendations that might be carried out by Executive Order or regulation (like a national registry of day-care workers who have been credibly accused of abuse), new legislation, new state and local programs, better enforcement of the laws already on the books. But the President, in his own interview with TIME, set an ambitious goal...
...while, taking stints at various campuses as they sort out their future. On the other hand, says Steenburgen, the idea of putting down roots has more than a little appeal to a woman who has spent most of her adult life in government housing, with each election bringing the prospect of eviction. The President's vision has them sitting on a bench somewhere, "old people laughing about our lives and not begrudging young people having more time than...