Word: reliefs
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After days of negotiations in Congress over tax reform legislation, many of the education tax relief provisions contained within the original Senate and House versions of the bills will remain in tact...
...Senate Republicans late Tuesday came up with the refund they?ve always wanted ? a 10-year, $792 billion smattering of tax cuts that combines the House?s across-the-board dreams (in this version, a one-percentage-point cut in every bracket) with the Senate?s targeted goodies (relief of the marriage penalty, increase IRA contribution limits) that make the measure sound more like one of Bill Clinton?s than Newt Gingrich?s. And that?s exactly why maybe ? just maybe ? some of this begging-to-be-vetoed bill might survive the summer. "The fact that it has so many...
Clinton wants tax relief too, but his more modest plan focuses on the lower end of the scale. The White House wants to funnel tax breaks into new Universal Savings Accounts, which would serve as government-subsidized iras for low-income earners. The heart of the Administration plan is devoted to paying off the national debt and ensuring the solvency of Social Security and Medicare. Clinton would set aside a third of the projected surplus--or $374 billion--for replenishing Medicare funds that could otherwise expire by 2015. And he would put the interest savings that result from debt reduction...
...rare occurrence, a compilation of connected tales, The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing, published this spring by a new writer, Melissa Bank, made the New York Times best-seller list. Another spring collection, For The Relief of Unbearable Urges, by 29-year-old Nathan Englander, has also done very well, placing among Amazon.com's top books. Older, more established writers have had luck too. Annie Proulx's newest collection of strikingly uncommercial short stories, Close Range, has sold nearly 100,000 copies. Scribner, the book's publisher, would have considered half that number a success. And at Knopf, senior...
...Part of the advantage of his coming here to Harvard for a semester was both to educate people here and to get some respite from this constant tension," Steiner said. "It is a terrible tragedy that right as he and his wife were about to get some relief, he was assassinated...