Word: retains
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...tooism among his G.O.P. rivals, several of whom quickly announced their flat-tax plans last week even while attacking Forbes' scheme as favoring, in Pat Buchanan's barb, "the boys down at the yacht basin." Buchanan and Senator Phil Gramm offered single-rate tax plans that would retain the popular deductions for mortgage interest and charitable contributions and would tax investment income. A long-shot candidate, self-made tire magnate Morry Taylor, asks why Forbes would charge him nothing on the $15 million he collected last year in stock profits but charge his workers full tax on their wages. Says...
...core, a memorial is a powerful, dramatic way of telling a story. It should extract a moral from history, one that assigns meaning the past. If Harvard memorializes those who fought for both sides during the Civil War, what possible moral or meaning can this watershed event retain...
Directors Carma Hinton (who was born and raised in China) and Richard Gordon have gone well beyond the call of duty in their Herculean effort to condense the fascinating and complex story of Communist China into a three-hour time slot and still retain a sense of focus and direction...
...consider bringing on the S & L as a client. "I don't believe it happened that way," Massey told Senators Thursday. He did admit to pitching Madison President John Latham on Rose's services, but said Latham told him only James McDougal, the S & L's owner, could retain Rose. To many questions posed by the Whitewater committee, Massey either could not remember the details, or had little to say. "It was mostly a fizzle for Al D'Amato and the Senate Whitewater investigators," notes TIME's Viveca Novak. "Massey didn't provide the explosive information the committee had advertised...
Still, a divorcing of the Waleses would have several gray areas--apart from the spectacle of the perpetual Windsors of discontent. Diana, for one, will always be the mother of William, presumably the next King but one. By tradition, a postdivorce Diana would retain the title Princess of Wales unless she remarried. The Queen might even allow her, as a courtesy, to remain "Her Royal Highness," a title reserved for those who are heir to the throne or married to the heir. Financial support and access to the children have probably already been worked out. But Diana's aspiration...