Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Radcliffe, she says was a welcome relief...
Dean Hanford suspends a College rule prohibiting personal solicitation of funds in the houses and dormitories, allowing the Food Relief Committee to collect funds for relief efforts in countries including Greece, Poland and China. The campaign is supported by folk singer Pete Seeger '40, who gives a free concert in Emerson Hall two weeks later...
Simple is often best. But as people who do their own form 1040s can attest, that isn't exactly a guiding principle of the U.S. tax code. So it's a bad joke that the current debate over tax relief for investors centers on a cut in the capital-gains tax, the 28% levy that you pay on stocks, bonds and other assets held more than a year and sold at a profit. The bad part is that while it would be relatively easy to install--Poof! Your tax rate is lower--what the Federal Government really needs...
...buzz for tax relief has rarely been louder, and is part of a bipartisan deal to balance the budget by 2002. More important, there is mounting grass-roots support for cutting taxes on investment gains. Thanks to a roaring bull market, and the fact that anyone with two nickels to spare is in stocks, Wall Street windfalls are no longer reserved for the rich. A survey by the NASDAQ stock exchange shows that the proportion of adults owning equities has doubled, to 43%, since...
...decision, since the procedure can mean a 91% likelihood of remaining cancer free--attractive odds in families in which female relatives have repeatedly been claimed by the disease. Even women with a more benign genetic legacy may appreciate the increased knowledge that comes from a positive test and whatever relief comes from a negative one. For now, researchers say, the key may be to look at genetic testing not as firm forecasting but as mere oddsmaking. As with all rolls of the dice, the outcome is never a sure thing...