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...more than two decades lonely reformers have waged a futile crusade to change the system. Even before John F. Kennedy appointed him to the Treasury's top tax post in 1961, Harvard Professor Stanley Surrey advocated lower rates, a simpler code and fewer deductions. His advice had little effect. Kennedy did propose rate cuts that were enacted after his assassination, but he also introduced the investment tax credit, on the theory that the tax code should promote industrial modernization, a prime example of manipulating the code for purposes other than raising revenue. George McGovern pledged some tax reforms during...
...ways he could shelter his six-figure income. "I wasn't just a player," he recalls. "I was a depreciable asset." On one road trip, when his teammates went to the movies to unwind, Bradley curled up with heavy tomes by Economist Milton Friedman and Tax Specialist Stanley Surrey and first read that tax rates could be greatly lowered if loopholes were closed...
Lucy Honeychurch (Helena Bonham Carter), an understated but passionate girl from Surrey, is on holiday in Florence when she meets and unconsciously falls in love with an impetuous, progressive-thinking English lad, George Emerson (Julian Sands...
...burlesque of Australian Press Lord Rupert Murdoch, owner of the Sun and Times of London, as well as the New York Post, Boston Herald and Chicago Sun-Times. There are conspicuous differences: Le Roux is a South African, not an Australian, and he lives in the Surrey countryside, not New York City...
...published Marie Carmichael Stopes's Married Love, the first of her eight monographs on sex activity. Professionally she is a palaeobotanist and an authority on coal. In 1918 she married Humphrey Verdon Roe, who with his brother Sir Alliott Verdon Roe developed the Avro biplane. They live in Surrey with their two sons and cooperate on birth control campaigns. She first published Married Love in 1918. Since then she has sold 700,000 copies in England alone. Copies heretofore in the U. S. were smuggled or pirated (with inexact text). Its thesis is that procreation is but one function...