Word: rateness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SCHIRNDING, West Germany--Thousands of young East German refugees rolled into West Germany at the rate of more than 100 an hour yesterday, causing a traffic jam that stretched several miles back into Czechoslovakia...
...five respected U.S. Senators get mixed up with such an operator? In a word, money. They are obsessed by it at the rate of about $10,000 a day -- the amount it takes to fuel a Senate campaign every six years. Glenn, who was carrying a $2 million debt from his 1984 presidential bid, solicited $200,000 from Keating for a political committee he controlled. Cranston ! solicited $850,000 from Keating in 1987 and 1988 for voter-registration drives. In Cranston's tight 1986 Senate race against former Republican Congressman Ed Zschau, Keating gave the California Democratic Party...
Although they are now ostensibly taxed at the same rate as other income, capital gains already get favored treatment in two ways. First, they are only taxed when an investment is sold, unlike interest and dividends, which are taxed every year. An ideal free-market tax system would leave an investor indifferent between, say, a savings account paying 10% a year and a stock expected to rise 10% a year. But tax-free compounding means that, for a top- bracket taxpayer the after-tax profit on the stock will be 45% bigger after 20 years...
...James A. Talcott, an instructor at Harvard Medical School, studied thirty-three individuals who worked in a factory making cigarette filters with crocidolite fibers in 1953. Twenty-eight of the workers had died, three times the expected death rate...
...mortality rate from lung cancer was higher than has been reported in any other study," said Talcott, who is a clinical associate at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. In addition to cancer, the study showed that the exposure to crocidolite caused respiratory diseases, such as malignant mesothelioma and asbestosis...