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...levies, said Fleming. But the Tories had plenty of long-range ideas about how to help Canada's economy at the expense of U.S. investors. Domestic companies, said Fleming, will get faster tax write-offs and lower income taxes. To nonresidents went notification that the government intends to sock them much harder. U.S. holders of Canadian stocks will pay a new 15% withholding tax on dividends; so will the holders of federal and provincial bonds. There will also be a tax jump from 5% to 15% on dividends transferred from Canadian subsidiaries to U.S. parent corporations. Unincorporated Canadian branches...
...during practice sessions and an exhibition game with the Chicago Bears, yielding such odd fragments as a defensive signal that goes "Brigitte Bardot double blitz" and a sharp warning from Huff to an elbow-throwing Bear: "You do that one more time, 88, and I'm going to sock...
...fell into the State." Shrewd, wary, knowing, and precociously cynical, Dinger is yet troubled by Wordsworthian intimations of immortality. Dimly, he is aware that the presence of a soul is a handicap in his strife with life. Of the soul, he observes: "I'd rather have a sock full of two-bob bits." Thus, it is not a tram but a moral issue that runs over Dinger Bell. By the time he has won his first stripe, Dinger also wears the common wound stripe of moral cowardice...
...light of those precedents, the Kennedy-Johnson marriage did not seem so astonishing after all. Thus, as in most instances of sock-and-swat Democratic brawls, the bright sun of unity shone down on the happy pair as they hopped onto their steamroller and gaily left town for their honeymoon...
...Sock the Rich. In Albuquerque, District Director Ernest W. Bacon of the Internal Revenue Service received 12? from a nine-year-old boy with a note attached: "Allowance, 50? per week, 50 times 26 [sic] equals $26; pulling nails, 25?; letting Joe hit me, 5?; not hitting him back, 3? ; cleaning up after dog, 25? ; painting doors, 50?; total $27.08. Spent all but 12?, am sending you and this makes me even...