Word: taxingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tuesday he met face-to-face with the house speaker, a Republican, to partner a proposed $1 billion tax rebate...
Ventura met last week with house speaker Steve Sviggum, a Republican, on the house's $1 billion tax-rebate plan. Sviggum brought another legislator with him. Jesse had four staff members on his side, armed with background...
...sovereignty over coca-land--the U.S. war on drugs in Colombia could unravel. Washington spends more than $100 million annually to help Colombia's national police destroy coca crops but to little avail--largely because the FARC earns 40% of its estimated $1 billion annual income from a tax it levies on coca farmers to protect their harvests from government eradication...
Sherry Meadows, a tax assessor in Mount Vernon, Ill., first considered long-term insurance in 1992 as her 50th birthday made her ponder old age. But she put it off, shocked by the high premiums and thinking she and husband John had some time. But by 1997, he was found to have Alzheimer's. Now Sherry's life is about loss--of John, 56, and of life as she knew it. Only work interrupts her constant vigil. There are no nights off from tending to John since she can't afford the $125-a-day fee for what has come...
Last week Sherry and millions like her were understandably attentive as the President unveiled a five-year, $6.2 billion long-term-care package. The plan includes $5.5 billion for an annual $1,000 tax credit for those who need or are providing care, and $125 million to pay for caregiver courses and respite services. Clinton could not have found a sweeter spot, since 5 million Americans need such care, a necessity that has a quarter of families caring for a relative over 50. Yet with the national average cost of care being $47,000 a year, the $1,000 credit...