Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fraction-of-an-inch-long slivers of wood said to be pieces of Christ's Cross -- previously authenticated as relics by the Vatican -- sold at auction for more than $18,000 in Paris. Though the proceeds went to charity, the Vatican called the sale a possible sin...
...Hill. By the Washington Post's count, she has met at least fifty times with members of Congress in both houses and both parties. With a mix of courtesy ("Yes, Congressman"), warmth (she hugged House Ways and Means Committee chairman Dan Rostenkowski) and blunt honesty (she warned legislators that sin taxes alone could not finance health care reform), she has generally won high marks and--more important--respect. While the president has made members of Congress feel isolated and ignored, his wife has catered to the fragile congressional egos by making legislators feel included in the process of crafting health...
...displaced by quiet, invisible graduates of business schools. The last convicted felon to be spotted by a local columnist on the Strip was Michael Milken, the junk-bond king. "What this town needs," says Bob Stupak, the crusty owner of Vegas World, "is that scent of vice, a little sin, to stir that desire to come to Las Vegas...
...team is contemplating. Just as millions of Americans prepared to file their income tax returns, a USA Today report quoted Shalala as saying that the health-care task force was examining some form of VAT in addition to Clinton's already announced plans for new energy taxes, higher sin taxes and rising top marginal rates. Coming two months after Clinton himself called the VAT a "radical" idea, the story could not have been more poorly timed...
...There's the energy tax. The tax on the superrich. The increased corporate income tax. Sin taxes. And now, much as they hate to, the people who once promised no more taxes on the middle class are considering just that: a value-added...