Word: rented
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That first income tax law (rates: 3% on income of $600 or more, 5% on $10,000 or more) included a prophetic batch of exceptions, including a provision permitting every taxpayer to deduct a house rent allowance, whether he was a renter or not-a forerunner of many anomalous provisions to come...
...double exemption for blind taxpayers is a humane provision, but it creates a special privilege not shared by taxpayers who suffer other kinds of disabilities. The deductibility of mortgage interest fosters socially desirable home ownership, but it gives the home owner a special advantage over the renter, whose rent includes a share of the land lord's interest costs...
...split mustache. He is one of the richest men in Mexico, with an income of something like $350,000 a year, lives like a potentate in five homes attended by a staff of 18 servants. He flies his own DC-3, has a private bull ring, and collects the rent from three Mexico City office buildings. Yet Cantinflas never quite forgets the character he plays. He is the softest touch in Mexico, dispensing thick wads of bills to practically everyone who comes...
Adhesive Quality. It was a torn and tattered party, which was rent even further by the Tories' 1959 landslide. But when his leadership was challenged, Gaitskell met the test. To the ban-the-bombers, who threatened to take over the party, Gaitskell fumed: "Go tell Mr. Khrushchev to ban his bomb. Go and see what it's like to deal with Soviet tanks and Soviet police like the Hungarian people." Victory over the unilateralists finally made Gaitskell's power absolute, and in the next two years he set out to rally the party behind a unified policy...
...likes to be a landlord. Instead, it builds and sells whole suburbs of apartments and homes, and throws in all the amenities from roads and utilities to churches and football fields. Even its apartments it sells on a "condominium" basis: the customer buys the apartment and thereafter can sell, rent or mortgage it on his own. In Italy, Immobiliare's prices for houses and apartments range from $7,000 to a top of $35,000, but in Washington's Watergate some of the posher pleasure domes will...