Word: sams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Japan, many politicians and businessmen charge that Japan has been successful partly because it is getting a "free ride" on defense (see following story). Declared Senator Don Riegle of Michigan in a recent speech: "Japan spends almost nothing on its own defense, then turns around and kicks Uncle Sam in the teeth on trade...
During the past 25 years, millions of students have received Federal Government loans to help defray their college expenses. But 1.5 million of them have since flunked a morality test: they have failed to repay their debts, leaving Uncle Sam holding the bag for $1.8 billion. Last year Education Department officials used a computer search to identify 46,000 federal employees among the defaulters. Result: 5,000 promptly anted up $2.3 million. Now the remaining 41,000 are being told they must pay up in 30 days or their wages will be garnisheed at the rate of 15% per paycheck...
...about most since assuming office a little more than a year ago. Like Honduras, Costa Rica feels particularly threatened by Central America's growing militarization and ideological polarization. Monge and other Costa Rican officials must be especially careful not to appear too much in the pocket of Uncle Sam. Monge stresses what might be called the liberal critique of the Central American crisis. As he told TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott last week: "For decades there has been repression of the people of Central America by oligarchs. This has created a serious dilemma for the U.S. Is it going...
...that every Boy Scout must learn, the word "thrifty" comes right before "brave, clean and reverent." Yet when a Scout grows up and runs into the U.S. tax code, he finds that a different law is in effect. Uncle Sam rewards big spenders much more than those who save. If a person earns $1,000 and spends it, that income is taxed only once. But if he saves the $1,000, he generally pays additional taxes on the interest the money earns. The combined impact of taxes and inflation can make saving a money-losing proposition. Borrowing, in contrast...
...cuff remarks, they often find themselves having to correct his misstatements of fact. "The operative word is ignorant," Curtis Wilkie, a Washington correspondent for the Boston Globe, told Hodding Carter. "He's lazy. He's not stupid. He's shrewd. He's a smart politician." Sam Donaldson of ABC added: "You combine a very mechanized, ruthless ability to control the flow of news and Mr. Reagan's absence of a lot of depth . . . and you have a situation that just drives us up the wall...