Word: tanks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...applying income taxes to the half of benefits that are financed by taxes levied on employers, but some economists advocate taxing the half that is financed out of deductions from workers' paychecks. Mickey Levy, in a study done for the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative Washington-based think tank, calculates that three-fifths of all Social Security beneficiaries would pay no tax anyway, because their incomes are too low and their exemptions too high (people over 65 get double the current $1,000 personal exemption from income taxes). Taxes paid by the other two-fifths, he figures, could...
...absorbed by the Unification Church's paternal comforts. That wasn't quite the way it worked, though The Moonies' escapades were inevitably transparent and usually laughable attempts to exhort students to take up right-wing anti-Soviet causes. On one memorable afternoon, a CARP member dressed as a Russian tank spent a good two hours chasing a mop-wigged colleague (identified as a peace-monger) around a lawn at the center of campus, in an elaborately choreographed ideological skit. On sunny days, CARPies would set up a card table with assorted Moon literature at a central campus transit point Nearby...
...resigned in January after the controversy over his handling of gifts from a Japanese magazine, was simply trying his own hand after judging a local kite-flying contest on Sanibel Island, Fla. "Kites can relax you, can adjust you," says Allen, who is now a political consultant and think-tank associate. He thought his own kite looked like the Pentagon, "but with one more angle." Said he: "It represents the Administration's six-sided strategic defense modernization program. You could call it the Caspar Weinberger Special...
Fitzpatrick returns to the family ranch after a stint as a NATO tank captain patroling the Berlin Wall. Borders are just as tense back home. His cantankerous grandfather goes on living and seething beyond his time; a sister with "insufficient resistance to pain of every kind" opts for the lesser agony of suicide. The lonesome cowboy finds purpose only in pursuing Claire, the icy wife of a "vivid . . . piercey-bright, oilman feisty" pseudo-patrón named Tio. The result is McGuane's standard mano á mano struggle in which the prize is less significant than the battle itself...
Murray, 39, spent six years studying the effectiveness of various Government spending programs for the American Institutes for Research, a nonpolitical Washington-based think tank. After leaving A.I.R. last year to become an independent consultant, Murray began to study the impact of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society on the level of poverty. To his surprise, Murray found that the prevalence of poverty in the U.S. had fallen just as rapidly during the Eisenhower years, when social spending was much lower...