Word: sinning
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...hard drive. I can finally use System 7 without losing half my disk space. It took me less than five minutes to back up my entire internal drive onto the Tsunami and I still have more than a hundred megs left over. It almost seems like a sin to have so much space...
Some of the more intriguing objections: cigarette makers, targeted for a tax of around 75 cents a pack to help pay for the plan, have been howling "No fair." They insist that any "sin" taxes should fall on liquor as well as smokes. Some feminists, while enthusiastically pro-reform, gripe that Clinton's plan does not pay enough attention to women's special health problems. For example, they say, it would be too stingy in paying for mammograms...
...Sin" taxes on cigarettes and alcohol...
Also included in the plan is a tax on tobacco,one of the so-called "sin" taxes which wereexpected to be used to cover part of the cost ofthe new plan...
...pagan association with honor, but in the religious character of the services. The Christianized West has long condemned suicide.. In antithesis to the pagan heroic ideal, the act is associated with a great evil, something more awful even the taking another's life; it is the single irrevocable sin. Yet Gardini becomes a victim, and Cagliari as well, both assassinated by politics...