Word: shells
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...persistent chafing of special interests, is still highly ambitious, at least when measured against the cautious norms of political reality. By closing or narrowing a raft of loopholes, it would simplify the tax code and allow reduced rates without loss of revenue to the Treasury. Most taxpayers would shell out less, the President will emphatically advertise, while businesses and the wealthy would be stripped of shelters that now reduce or even eliminate their tax burden. The top rate would drop from 50% to 35%; middle-income taxpayers would pay 25%, and those with lower incomes 15%. The personal exemption...
...world's oldest Dead Heads." His TIME cover subjects include Model Cheryl Tiegs, Singer Linda Ronstadt and Actresses Diane Keaton and Meryl Streep. Skow dined with Madonna and her band at Chez Helene in New Orleans and discovered "that we both liked Judy Holliday and soft-shell crabs...
...fear that it would endanger rather than protect them if it could be. The reasoning: the system could zap Soviet missiles headed for the U.S. but not those aimed at Western Europe, because flight times to targets there are so short. In addition, if the U.S. had a defensive shell, it might be less likely to go on | viewing its security and that of Western Europe as inextricably linked. Europe's safety can be guaranteed only by a continued U.S. threat to retaliate against any Soviet attack; hence, a potential American shift from a strategy of deterrence...
...that race, however, Navy downed the Crimson by only one second, Since then, the Sudduth-stroked shell-the 1984 Olympic silver medalist became Harvard's third eight man of the season the day after the Navy race has downed eight-seeded Northeastern by a whopping 10 seconds...
Most experts agree with Harvard Astronomer Fred Whipple, who characterized comets as "dirty snowballs" consisting largely of ice and mineral-rich dust. Comets are thought to originate in the Oort cloud, a distant shell of icy debris believed to surround the solar system and extend out some 10 trillion miles from the sun. Passing stars sometimes dislodge snowballs from the cloud, which can sprout the classic luminous tails of gas and dust as they plunge toward the sun. Most comets whip around the sun and head back out of the solar system. Some, like Halley's, periodically return. But others...