Word: tempts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...maximum tax rate from 50% to an eventual 28%. But tax experts doubt that the shelter game is over. Says John McAtee, a securities lawyer with Davis Polk & Wardwell: "The Government will continue to create new loopholes to accomplish economic and social goals." Smooth-talking operators will continue to tempt wealthy investors with creative -- and not always legitimate -- ways to use those loopholes...
...dressier duds have the aged-in feeling of favored sportswear. Maybe better than anyone else just now, Hamnett captures the roughed-up elegance of the everyday. Everything she makes is a little playful, like her swimsuits, and as homey as a pair of jeans. And her denims, indeed, tempt the wearer to apostasy: they just could be better than Levi...
...rash of ) jacket crimes. But Newark has been hardest hit, with 78 jacket robberies in January alone, 56 of them involving deadly weapons. The Newark police have formed a special jacket unit, some of whose members don models from among the confiscated supply and walk the streets, hoping to tempt those they call "dive bombers" to action...
...whole life really revolved around this area and these colleagueships," he says. "No inducements of weather or opulence would tempt me [to leave...
There is considerable irony in the retreat by individuals. Virtually all of the stock market's current volatility has been made possible by computers. And these in turn were originally installed at New York's Big Board to offer easier, cheaper trading to tempt back small investors who had begun to flee to bonds and money-market accounts during the high-inflation '70s. In all, the Big Board spent $200 million on its modernization during the past five years. When the stock market perked up again starting in the early 1980s, the major institutional investors quickly spotted the advantages...