Word: shelterer
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...taxpayers who still strive to fill out their Form 1040s accurately and completely, the task has become ever more arduous and exasperating. Congress loaded last year's tax bill with new deduction rules, depreciation formulas and tax-shelter gimmicks and thus added to the confusion that has already made the Internal Revenue Code scarcely more comprehensible than a textbook on quantum mechanics...
...approach to preparing for a nuclear war that has been resurrected by the Reagan Administration is the idea of civil defense. The President has budgeted $252 million for the program next year, a 90% increase over fiscal 1982. But unlike the fallout-shelter mania that followed the Berlin crisis of 1961, when the Kennedy Administration spent $257 million (1982 equivalent: $920 million) for civil defense, the Reagan program is focused on "crisis relocation" to evacuate probable target areas, and on contingency plans for resuming normal operations after a nuclear attack...
...Burn him at the stake, says one of Steiner's Jewish hunters. That kind of revenge is pointless, argues another. "I'd let him go wherever he wanted inside Israel. With only the clothing on his back. Every single time he wanted food or water or shelter, he'd have...
...Marks chosen to speak out now? Well, he admitted, he had decided not to seek re-election in November because of his back problem. Did he fear retaliation from conservative Republicans, including the President? "When I called my wife in the bomb shelter," Marks quipped, "she wasn't concerned...
...vulnerable northeast region. The Sandinistas fear that the porous Honduras border, and the 336-mile Caribbean coastline, might eventually be used as a staging area for an invasion led by anti-Sandinista units. The forcible resettlement of the Miskitos was designed to prevent them from providing food, shelter and intelligence to the anti-Sandinistas. Whatever the reason, the Sandinista action against the Indian minority was being sharply criticized last week as an indefensible abridgment of human rights...