Word: taxingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tax filing day -- and if you?ve spent the last few nights wading through reams of codes, you?re probably not feeling well disposed toward our friends in the Internal Revenue Service. But would you go so far as wanting to blow them up? Conspiracies to attack IRS offices -- as well as other federal buildings -- are on the rise, according to a report released Wednesday by the Southern Poverty Law Center, a group that has tracked hate crimes since...
Chief accomplishment: Signed many antitrust laws, including corporation tax...
...through a puppet emperor. Its impoverished peasants, traditional dissidents, opposed France's presence; and Ho's father, a functionary at the imperial court, manifested his sympathy for them by quitting his position and becoming an itinerant teacher. Inheriting his father's rebellious bent, Ho participated in a series of tax revolts, acquiring a reputation as a troublemaker. But he was familiar with the lofty French principles of liberte, egalite, fraternite and yearned to see them in practice in France. In 1911 he sailed for Marseilles as a galley boy aboard a passenger liner. His record of dissent had already earned...
...earliest admirers was Ronald Reagan, who achieved power 18 months after she did. He too began to reverse the Ratchet Effect in the U.S. by effective deregulation, tax cutting and opening up wider market opportunities for free enterprise. Reagan liked to listen to Thatcher's various lectures on the virtues of the market or the minimal state. "I'll remember that, Margaret," he said. She listened carefully to his jokes, tried to get the point and laughed in the right places...
...build a pan-China corporation--Richina stands for "Rich China"--but not by hiding behind tariffs and protectionism. China is his market and the font of business opportunities; the rest of the world will deliver finance, technology, professional expertise, the copy printed in his computer magazines, and even tax shelter. (Richina is incorporated in the British Virgin Islands.) "I would never say this to friends," he says with uncommon modesty, "but I want to do my bit to make China an internationally recognized country. At the same time, the fact that I live in Shanghai means nothing. I live...