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...help to either accountants or taxpayers. A survey by the General Accounting Office last year found that the agency's telephone assisters answered taxpayer queries incorrectly 21% of the time. The IRS was determined to do better this year, since it expects to help 22 million callers on its toll-free phone lines this season, up from 17 million in 1987. The agency, which has invested 2.5 million hours in training its entire staff for tax reform, has increased its ranks of telephone assisters by 1,000, to 4,500. To determine whether correct information is going...
Last week's cloudbursts killed at least 90 people and raised February's death toll in Rio state to more than 280. An additional 735 people were injured and more than 17,000 left homeless. Mayor Saturnino Braga said the city would have to spend $100 million to make repairs...
...sudden bipartisan harmony? Partly because exhaustion and even boredom have taken a toll in seven years of bitter ideological combat; mostly because the battle over this budget has already largely been fought. Reagan's document embodies the compromise deficit-reduction plan forged during the emergency White House-Congress budget summit held during those anxious days last fall after the stock market crashed. Noting that the document "does not fully reflect my priorities," the President said, "I am adhering to the bipartisan budget agreement and keeping my part of the bargain. I ask Congress to do the same." The lawmakers seemed...
...grateful for Social Security because it relieves them of some of the responsibility for taking care of their elders. Some, but not all. Financial responsibility is only one of several kinds, and perhaps not the most burdensome. An ailing parent, even in a distant city, can take an emotional toll on adult children. In many cases the parent may be living in the same town -- or the same house. Already, says Fordham's Marjorie Cantor, former president of the Gerontological Society, "the family is the major source of support for the elderly. And there is no indication in the future...
More of such moxie is in order. Resignation exacts as heavy a toll on the road to old age as disease or poor habits, warn gerontologists, who stress the importance of cultivating new interests and staying mentally engaged. That view is shared by no less an authority than Comedian George Burns. "People practice to get old," he avers. "The minute they get to be 65 or 70, they sit down slow, they get into a car with trouble. They start taking small steps." Burns stays young by taking fearless strides. He plans to play the London Palladium on his 100th...