Word: standardly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...easy path of dwelling on its attractive main characters. Color dominates the atmosphere of the movie, from the tropical saturation of the Miami scenes to the dingy gray of inner-city Detroit. A mesmerizing clarity of hue and light is emphasized by camera angles more inventive than those of standard industry shots. The surprising shots usually enhance the movie--bright, brittle, nonchalant depiction of the sparse violence appears almost innocuous, preserving Foley's good-guy feel; a dizzying, lightning-quick camera pan around a prison yard makes a scrawny inmate look as ferocious as he really...
...center of the discussions will be the formation of a standard "Code of Conduct" that manufacturers should meet--in the group's opinion--in order to produce items that bear university names...
Consider a husband and wife, each of whom earns $30,000 a year. This year the couple would owe $7,795 in federal income tax. They would owe $880 less if they divorced but stayed together. That's because married people get a smaller standard deduction: $7,100 per couple, vs. $4,250 per single ($8,500 together). Married couples also move to the next tax bracket quicker: after typical deductions, they can earn $42,350 in the 15% bracket before further income is taxed at 28%; singles can earn $25,350 each ($50,700 together) before crossing that threshold...
That excuse may not be around much longer though. There's strong support among members of both parties in Congress to at least reduce the marriage penalty. The likely outcome will be a half step: a bigger standard deduction for married couples. That might eliminate the marriage penalty for couples earning less than $50,000--those most likely to let it keep them from the altar. But to wipe out the penalty for all requires a bigger change...
...think your article was very biased and unfair to the majority of teens. While I acknowledge that some teens are making poor choices, most of us are making wise ones. You point the finger at the standard evils of TV and music. These are not to blame. When I was at a young age, my mom gave me "the talk" and wasn't embarrassed or hush-hush about the topic. The result is, I plan to abstain from sex until I'm married. JULIA SWEET, age 16 Mercer Island, Wash...