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...economy in the typical U.S. household: the principal breadwinner (let's say it's a he) brings home the same paycheck he was bringing home in 1970, when Richard Nixon was President and the Grateful Dead had hair. He may think he's got raises, but when you subtract for inflation, he hasn't. Yet his family is better off than it was in 1970, with 20% more buying power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEALTH: STATIC WAGES, EXCEPT FOR THE RICH | 1/30/1995 | See Source »

...check here. Enter the standard deduction shown below for your filing staus. But if you checked any box on line 18a or b, go to page 36 to find your standard deuction. If you checked any box 18c, enter -0-....If line 27 is more than 28d, subtract line 28d from line 27 and see page...

Author: By Evan P. Cucci, | Title: Ending April's Cruelest Day | 4/15/1994 | See Source »

...nice analytical stab, but totally off the mark. Mom and Pop, rather than students themselves, often deal with their term bills: and for those who do handle their own term bills, the UC should understand that at humanities-leaning Harvard, most student have lost the ability to subtract $16.67 from $24000. They are still capable, how-ever, of writing letters to Dean Epps--although, we suspect, they be a bit longer than necessary...

Author: By Benjamin J. Heller, | Title: DARTABOARD | 3/19/1994 | See Source »

Anderson himself seems to have inherited a remarkable collection of genes. "I was rather a weird little boy," he admits. A child prodigy in Tulsa, he could read, write, add and subtract before kindergarten, and was devouring college science books when he was eight -- skills, he says, that "did not endear me to the other schoolchildren of Oklahoma." He was also a stutterer, which made him a target of taunts. But that didn't bother him, he says, "because I considered everybody else in the world stupid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battler for Gene Therapy | 1/17/1994 | See Source »

...casual without sounding contrived: the very reasonableness Lois conveys in denouncing herself, or denouncing an ex, or attacking romantic pretensions, guarantees the depth of feeling she conceals. Restraint over anger over disappointment approach and recede like waves; sometimes, as in "The Trouble with Me," the songs actually add and subtract instruments that way too. Listening to Strumpet is a bit like taking a long bike ride through light rain-it's hardly spectacular, it feels a bit lonely, but you're likely to end up glad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Steve L. Burt One Chord Wonders | 10/28/1993 | See Source »

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