Word: socialism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...million. That was back when Seaboard stock was less than half its present value. Like many millionaires, Bresky also enjoyed a comparatively low federal tax rate. On his 1990 U.S. income tax return, he reported adjusted gross income of $2.243 million and paid $503,000 in federal income and Social Security taxes. His effective overall tax rate worked out to 22.4%--just a few percentage points above the 16.8% rate paid by families earning $35,000 a year. Of course, Bresky had 64 times as much income...
...company's employees. Rent is automatically deducted from the paychecks of Seaboard workers. So, too, is the cost of meals that they eat at the plant. A two-bedroom apartment goes for $420 a month; for three bedrooms, $485. A Seaboard worker earns about $300 a week--before Social Security and income taxes are deducted...
...suggested we do a story on an issue many parents now face: Is hunting a good thing to teach our kids? "People who hunt get something valuable out of it that doesn't translate well to people who don't hunt," says Goodgame. "So it makes an interesting social issue...
Updike the Yankee and Wolfe the Virginian are gentlemen of carefully carved manners, but they represent competing schools of fiction. Updike's novels are introverted and literary, painted in subtle pastels. Wolfe, who once wrote a manifesto urging writers to rediscover the Thackeray tradition of sweeping social tomes, prefers raucous and sprawling journalistic narratives that spray-paint the world in bold colors. In 1965 Wolfe wrote a bratty piece calling the New Yorker "the most successful suburban women's magazine in the country." Updike, a fixture there since the '50s, has jousted at the man he calls "Tom, as distinguished...
...Ritalin clearly works in the short term to reduce the symptoms of ADHD. But more and more kids have been taking the drug for years, and no studies have run long enough to see if it has a lasting effect on academic performance or social behavior...