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...really awake." Taking a cue from the TV commercials, he adds, "Well, every time I drink Surge, I feel compelled to ball my hands into fists and shout "Surge!!!!" to anyone I know who is passing by." Weiss, a pre-med student, also remarks jokingly that Surge may cause "short-term memory lapses...
...Rubin emerged having promised nothing -- and said everything. "The U.S. is being quite candid," says TIME business correspondent Bernard Baumohl. "Japan must do something to revive their economy." What the U.S. has in mind are not only long-term structural reforms but a very simple short-term Keynesian solution of government spending and tax cuts. But despite repeated promises by Prime Minister Hashimoto, Japan's government has been frustratingly slow...
...reasons noir has been repopularized may be specific to our era, but ironically they give me hope for the future of noir. Whatever the short-term future of the genre, I think there will be another resurgence of interest during the next technological revolution (and the economic boom that accompanies it). We may not be able to imagine what that revolution will be, but I can tell you what people will be reading when it happens...
Leaving those aside for the moment, the complaints fell into two broad categories. First, there were concerns about unwitting short-term errors. For the most part, I will pass these along to the editor concerned, and they will usually be rectified by printing a correction. I will be dealing mostly with the second category, the long-term concerns about directional changes that readers want to see in The Crimson's policy on certain issues or broad topics...
...chance to mismatch a long-term loss with a short-term gain and generate greater tax savings. Say you're in the top 39.6% tax bracket and have no short-term losses but a short-term gain of $1,000. You also have no long-term gains but a long-term loss of $1,000. That long-term loss offsets your short-term gain, rubbing out a $396 tax bill. If you had used the long-term loss against a long-term gain, where 20% is the tax rate, you would have rubbed out only $200 of tax liability...