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Moreover, the tax-reform plans that Congress is considering would put limits on the amount of interest that people can deduct on their income-tax returns. At present, the tax system certainly eases the accumulation of debt by allowing taxpayers to subtract all interest from their income. Says Black: "I got into debt partly because the interest payments were the only tax deduction I had. I felt that if I saved money, I'd be losing money...
...competence as a playwright into serious question. The tone and execution of the play strive for realism, but Whitemore undercuts it with the formal monologue--one of the most contrived devices in the dramatist's handbook. Simple reminiscences intended to add dimension to the characters, these solo speeches instead subtract from the play's impact...
While Alfonsín haggles with the IMF, a crucial deadline is drawing perilously close. If Argentina does not pay $500 million in interest on its $43.6 billion debt by June 30, U.S. banks will have to subtract the missing payments from second-quarter profits. Faced with a similar dilemma in March, the banks got their money when the U.S. Treasury helped put together a $400 million bailout plan for Argentina. Unless another rescue materializes this time, such banks as Manufacturers Hanover Trust, Citicorp and Chase Manhattan could suffer painful losses...
...left the U.S. free to proceed, albeit at a somewhat reduced level, with a number of new programs that greatly worried Moscow: the MX intercontinental missile, the Trident II submarine missile and a variety of cruise missiles. Thus to reach a bottom line of equality, the Soviets had to subtract, while the U.S. could add. A proposal based on such arithmetic, even as adjusted late last year under pressure from Congress, was simply nonnegotiable with the Soviets...
Those commands tell the computer to determine the jet's altitude (JETY) and subtract the altitude of the enemy missile (EMISY). If the result is ten or more, the two objects have missed each other. If it is less than ten, the program puts a one in a special switch called JETCOND that sends the jet into a flaming crash...