Word: sharing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since only a few hard-core ideologues still believe that lowering marginal tax rates produces an actual increase in revenues, Lindsey had to content himself by telling the gathered students that lowering the top marginal rates makes the rich pay a larger share of the nation's total tax bill...
This is true, but misleading. That "larger share" is smaller in actual dollars. Revenues from corporate income taxes and income taxes from the top brackets actually declined in real terms from 1980-1987. This represents a larger proportion only because total revenues fell so dramatically after the fiscally irresponsible...
Commonalities bring people together. It is a natural human tendency to associate with those with whom we share a common ground. Classical music brings musicians together to form orchestras. Political ideologies bring people to form Republican and Democratic organizations. And historical and cultural similarities and common political, educational and social needs bring minority students together to form minority groups...
...Rick Dempsey collected four doubles in the five-game series against the Phils, which Baltimore won, 4-1. Although Demspey tied a World Series record for most doubles in a single five-game World Series (Eddie Collins did it in 1910), he is nowhere near the two players who share the career record for most doubles in World Series play. Name this...
...February 22, 1989, and the Harvard men's squash team had just defeated previously-undefeated Yale, 6-3, to earn a share of the Ivy League title...