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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other factor makes capital gains different from other forms of income: you can generally choose when to take them. In a world with no taxes, an investor would trade one investment for another whenever he or she thought the new one would be more profitable. In the real world, people hold on to investments they would otherwise trade in order to avoid paying the tax. That makes the economy less efficient. A tax break for capital gains would reduce this so-called lock-in effect. (Although, please note, this is exactly the opposite of one argument usually heard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A Capitalist's Guide to Capital Gains | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

...thought I was here to be educated. I thought I was here to be enlightened. I thought I was here to be stimulated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jewett Plan is Breach of Faith | 11/4/1989 | See Source »

...Stanford or the [California] schools might have better water polo teams," the Leverett House junior explains, "but I wanted to get the 'Eastern Experience.' On the West coast, Eastern water polo is considered a joke. Well, I thought it is more important to establish a tradition than to be a part of a tradition...

Author: By Kevin Toh, | Title: 'That Adventuresome Spirit' | 11/3/1989 | See Source »

Fusion, the nuclear reaction that powers the sun, was originally thought to occur only at extremely high temperatures and pressures...

Author: By Andrew D. Cohen, | Title: Cold Fusion Studies Continue | 11/2/1989 | See Source »

...believe that even though we came back and tied it, we lost," Cutone said. "I thought for sure when that last goal went in the ref was going to say, `No goal...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Crimson Fairy Tales Don't Always Come True | 11/2/1989 | See Source »

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