Word: stephen
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...this crackdown by the ancien ragime at the IRS as a sign of its desperation and imminent collapse. "When you get to the point where you have government snooping in people's drawers and talking to neighbors, you know that something has gone desperately wrong with the system," says Stephen Moore, a budget expert at the libertarian Cato Institute. Representative Bill Archer of Texas, chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, observes that the irs stirs more resentment than ever because "it has been given more power, more penalties." All of which only furthers his cause of radical...
...disclosure was apparently news to two FCC examiners closely involved in the case, Roy Stewart and his assistant Stephen Sewell, both widely respected for their detailed scrutiny of applications. In formal affidavits filed earlier this year, both said they did not know that News Corp. owned so much equity. Murdoch counters that News Corp.'s ownership was fully disclosed in 1985. In his deposition he told investigators he would have been "mad" to hide anything from the commission, given the size of his investment. Of the FCC's Stewart, Murdoch says, "Maybe he just didn't read the application...
...Stephen L. Talbott, a technical editor at O'Reilly & Associates, finally did just that. A philosopher by training, and briefly a farmer, Talbott went online 14 years ago. In the beginning, he enjoyed the free flow of information and the sense that he was exploring an uncharted frontier. But he found that as the offerings on the Net grew exponentially, so did the time he spent there. Toward the end, he was online four or five hours a day doing Internet-related work. Finally, in December, he cut himself off from the Net completely. "I immediately felt very good...
...Cambridge Fire Department sent a full first alarm company, including two ladder trucks, three engine companies and a heavy rescue truck, according to Acting Deputy Chief Stephen J. Boyle...
...absolutely incredible just to see so many people," said Jennifer Stephen '98. "You don't need to be a politician, or a fanatic, or an intellectual, you just need to care about women...