Word: stockings
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That is probably the response I should have expected from eight-year-olds, but it really made me take stock and try to answer the question for myself...
...Careers" (Opinion, Dec. 1): Almost no one would refute that long-term economic growth eventually benefits almost all consumers, but I question the extent to which the positions Sen describes (consultants, entry-level managers, etc.) aid in this purpose. In a country where more than 80 percent of corporate stock is owned by 5 percent of the population, I wonder if balancing Merrill Lynch's checkbook has any direct affect on a poor family...
...that I can count the months left until May on one hand, I've started reviewing the last three-odd years, taking stock of what has happened, wondering if I've changed during my stay at Harvard. Am I the same bright-eyed and bushy-tailed kid who showed up in the Yard one balmy September? I'm not. I've changed. The change hasn't been particularly obvious: my sense of humor is the same, I still believe in the same essential ideals, still treasure warm weather...
Your basic premise was flawed. Why shouldn't corporations try to avoid paying taxes? Corporations are owned by stockholders. Stockholders are taxpaying individuals who are taxed on any dividends they receive from the corporation and are taxed on any gain in the value of their stock. The corporations are taxed, and the stockholders are taxed. So all of the productive activity of the corporation is taxed twice. If you want to investigate the "fleecing of America," why not investigate why the government thinks it needs all this twice-taxed money? Investigate how much money is spent spending the money that...
...deal is relatively straightforward: in exchange for $4.2 billion (roughly 10%) worth of its high-flying (if arguably inflated) stock, AOL gets all of Netscape, right down to the last cappuccino machine. These are indeed dark days for the Mountain View, Calif., start-up. The company whose trailblazing browser jump-started the World Wide Web back in 1994 was supposed to become the fastest hot rod on the Infobahn. Instead, Bill Gates sideswiped it into a ditch and left AOL to strip the wreck for parts: a browser, a website and a treasure chest of software. How well AOL exploits...