Word: subjected
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...year. Throughout the 1950s and '60s, it ranged from $45 to $374.) If Social Security were all she had to live on, it would be unthinkable to ask her to take less. But because she has income above $25,000 a year, half her Social Security benefits will be subject to tax. Would it be cruel or unfair, when so many are homeless and when the Government is spending $150 billion more each year than it has, to subject her full benefit to tax? Exposing both halves of the Social Security benefit to taxation for retirees with income over...
...rowdily irreverent about Texas and football. Fast Copy, Jenkins' latest, is longer, straighter, less rowdy and not quite so much fun. The background is 1930s journalism, including the early days of TIME and big- and small-time newspapering in Texas and elsewhere. Jenkins, too much in love with his subject, throws in every good story he knows about gangsters, FBI men, reporters, editors, oil wildcatters and similar riffraff. The effect is to scatter the novel's focus so that a complete, fully plotted detective story about a crooked Texas Ranger can be misplaced, almost unnoticed, in one , corner. A dominant...
...Because of the doctrine of executive privilege and the president's inherent foreign affairs authority, Congress' authority to compel disclosure of information concerning covert activity is necessarily subject to formidable constitutional limitations...
Sloan says that she came to realize that Eva, even if she was often cruel and manipulative, was also subject to a wide range of human emotions...
Almost a week after a student committee advising Bok on the dean search released the results of a student poll on the role of the next dean, the committee yesterday assembled nine faculty members who debated that subject in an open forum...