Word: summing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Former Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Sheldon Cohen, a Democrat, said that the President apparently violated IRS rules by improperly listing his $50,000 annual expense account as additional salary. Counted that way, and not as an expense allowance, the sum increased not only Nixon's adjusted gross income but also the size of the maximum tax deduction he could take for charitable contributions. Tax laws limit the maximum charitable deduction to a fixed percentage of adjusted gross income. In three of the four years affecting Nixon's recent tax returns, he would be allowed charitable deductions...
...that agreement, Ford boosted suggested retail prices on most of its cars by an average of $179 or 3.8%, while GM lifted its by $ 133 or 2.8%. Both companies and American Motors also agreed not to raise the retail price of small cars by more than $150. But this sum is a greater percentage of the base price of compacts than it is on full-size autos. Chrysler made no formal commitment, but Chairman Lynn Townsend predicted that competitive pressures would keep its prices in line with those of its rivals...
...sum up none of my plays," Pinter has said. "I can describe none of them, except to say: that is what happened. That is what they said. That is what they did." The essence of Pinter is in suggestion and allusion and tone. Of all contemporary writers, he has best calculated how to contain fire under...
...counter alone, and if you buy a few things, then she will have to go out and find the younger Senora, her daughter-in-law, who will go and get her young child, or her husband, if he is home from the fields, to come and figure the sum. Otherwise the Senora adds one more note to the board...
Biden said Democrats must campaign on bread-and-butter issues. "The administration's economic mismanagement should be at the top," he said. "We are campaigning against a president who thinks that the public good is the sum of all private deals...