Word: taxingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Does anyone really think that members of Congress, who routinely pillage billions of tax dollars for post offices and bridges in their own districts, will shy away from influencing the direction of this huge investment windfall? And even if they are not so crass as to pick a shipbuilding company in their district, they will be issuing every conceivable ideological litmus test for these investments...
...moved to the Senate? Think again. Starr's cameo appearance to get Monica Lewinsky to sing on behalf of House prosecutors was the first hint that he's not yet through with the show. Tuesday Starr obtained a federal court's permission to pursue presidential friend Webster Hubbell on tax evasion charges in connection with Whitewater. Add to Starr's program a contempt case against ex-Whitewater partner Susan McDougal and an obstruction of justice case against Julie Steele for having allegedly lied in the Kathleen Willey case, and, says TIME Washington correspondent Viveca Novak, "the independent counsel could stay...
Your article "Five Ways Out," accompanying your series on tax incentives and subsidies for companies [SPECIAL REPORT: CORPORATE WELFARE, Nov. 30], mentioned Hobart Corp., a unit of PMI Food Equipment Group, stating that in 1995 the company moved its Dayton, Ohio, plant to Piqua, Ohio, as a result of tax incentives, and that employees had only three days' notice before the closing. In fact, the relocation decision occurred only after Hobart determined that its Dayton facility was antiquated and inefficient. The move would have occurred regardless of any tax incentives, which to date have been less than...
...them off. Bank One last week rolled out a Web service that lets users apply for a home-equity loan and get an answer in a minute. Such loans can be a cheap way to consolidate credit-card debt, and interest payments are usually tax deductible...
...they're worrying about impeachment, he has been saying, and we're worrying about keeping guns out of schoolyards. While House managers tried to pin him in the Senate well, Clinton spent the week preserving wide-open spaces, proposing a 55[cents]-a-pack hike in the federal cigarette tax and helping disabled Americans keep their health insurance. However hard it is for him to give the speech, it may be harder for Congress to hear it. If all goes his way, the Senate will wake up on Wednesday wondering whose idea this trial was anyway...