Word: subjection
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...clock started ticking for 41,039 Massachusetts families. But by last month there were only 5,103 recipients subject to the limits on the rolls...
Heller asks rhetorically if FDR or Kennedy could have exercised world leadership if he had been in Clinton's position. I wonder the same thing myself--after all, both men carried on sexual affairs while president. What if the private lives of each had been subject to investigations by independent counsels, with an opposition Congress eager to impeach him? Heller's historical examples prove all too clearly that the sexual mores of our public officials can and should have nothing whatsoever to do with their public duties...
...Colo., last September and engaged him in a lively conversation on the ethics of cloning. "Wilmut expressed his concern that the breakthrough he had wrought would be used by others with no thoughtful moral or legal guidelines," says Isaacson, who promptly recruited Wilmut to write the essay on the subject that appears in this week's issue...
...afflict only the superrich, this monster increasingly soaks the middle class. More than 1 million taxpayers will owe it this year, and 9 million by 2008--including many earning considerably less than $100,000 a year. Little more than a decade ago, fewer than 100,000 people were subject to the AMT. It's a complicated tax that targets folks who avoid most traditional income taxes through large credits and deductions. High earners in high-tax states are most vulnerable, but anyone taking a large deduction for business expenses can fall victim. Tip: consult a pro. Avoiding...
Indeed, the almost daily advances in our ability to forecast any of the 4,000 inherited diseases our genes might bequeath us have created such a thorny knot of private, ethical and social issues that the new genetic procedures are the subject of some 20 bills before Congress. In addition, 3% or 4% of the federal investment in the Human Genome Project--about $90 million--is now going to studies seeking to untangle them. One result is the imminent appointment of an 11-member blue-ribbon panel to advise Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala...