Word: reasonings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Yale, Princeton and the University of Chicago are currently considering Holocaust studies professorships, according to Martin H. Peretz, a lecturer in social studies. While no particular scholar may have been available at the time of the bequest, that is no reason for the University to convince the donor to reallocate the money...
...good reason, given the sharp division of opinion on this question, to go through the many layers of approvals needed to make this change, simply to effect the modest alteration of adding a signature to women's diplomas in their long-standing form," Lewis wrote in an e-mail message to Stewart...
...with a rueful comment on the distance. That's all wrong. The proper response should be: "What are you talking about? It's great!" Too often the Quad resident is actually brainwashed by this kind of misdirected sympathy into feeling sorry for himself or herself. There's really no reason for it. We ought to be smirking, or even openly boasting, not contributing to the prevailing--and totally erroneous--impression that we are victims of randomization who got "stuck" in the Quad...
Here are the important dates: the old rate applies to assets sold before May 7; the new rate applies to assets sold after July 28. In between, for some reason, you get a freebie of sorts: the 20% rate on assets held just 12 months, not the new long-term threshold of 18 months. You can see why good record keeping is important...
Overall, there could be no better sign of the economy's internal strength than its ability to roll with a punch as hard as the one from Asia and still squeeze out a fairly good year. Some reasons for that strength: rising productivity, which is at last increasing workers' real wages without pushing up prices, and government policies that Sinai pronounces "eerily" wise. Most important, of course, is the swing from gargantuan budget deficits in the 1980s and early '90s to an expected small surplus this fiscal year, with more to come. Kaufman notes a continuing boom in business investments...