Word: taxingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Councillors debated whether to impose a transfer tax to assist citizens who may lose their homes because of the end of rent controls this winter...
RELEASED. WEBSTER HUBBELL, 49, longtime Clinton friend and former Justice Department official; from a federal halfway house; after serving more than a year in prison for tax evasion and mail fraud. Hubbell is still linked to continuing investigations of Whitewater and Democratic fund-raising activities...
College students stand to benefit if this new direction in federal spending comes to be. Clinton has included in his budget a tax credit of up to $1,500 per year for two years of college education provided that students maintain a 'B' average (which is not such a difficult hurdle here, at least). In addition, Clinton has pledged to increase the funding of Pell grants, which provide assistance to needy students, so that each recipient gets $3,000, an increase of over $300 per student. Also, Clinton proposes to add $27 million per year for federal college work-study...
...pleased to note that the Clinton budget does well by American laborer-citizens. One of the president's proposals is for a tax deduction of up to $10,000 for post-secondary school education and training. This tax break couldn't be more beneficial to average Americans who are competing in an increasingly global and skilled labor market. In the new economic order of the information age, it is human capital which is the primary value of the citizen, for it is that knowledge and skill base which is salable to employers. For Americans to be able to compete...
...would have known that under the dignified exterior beat the competitive, mass-market heart of a Danielle Steel? (Graham joked that her working title was A Better Life, to distinguish it from Bradlee's A Good Life). As Graham soldiered through a media blitz that would tax someone half her age with two original hips (she had one of hers replaced recently and was still using a cane at her New York City book party last Thursday), her oldest son, Washington Post publisher Donald Graham, fretted that "she would soon be booking herself onto the Home Shopping Network...