Word: tomming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...President Clinton, en route to Senegal, made a courtesy call to France's President Jacques Chirac to ensure that his trip wasn?t viewed "as somehow pitting the United States against the French," according to an aide. He needn't have bothered, says TIME Paris bureau chief Tom Sancton: "If anything, the French government would like to get the U.S. more involved in Africa, because France is scaling down its own involvement. France no longer wants to be the gendarme of Africa...
Generally, the targeted tax goodies for education and retirement get phased out for joint filers with an annual household income between $75,000 and $160,000. "The thresholds are tantalizingly high," notes Tom Ochsenschlager, a tax partner with Grant Thornton in Washington. "All of a sudden, you may find it makes sense to keep your '98 income down...
...TOM CLANCY NFL says he can buy the Vikings. Beware, Coach: if he says, "Throw the bomb," he might mean bomb...
QUESTION: Compared with other generations of British actors, has the '60s generation of actors (Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay, Alan Bates, Michael Caine, Glenda Jackson, Sean Connery, Vanessa Redgrave) been slighted in the awarding of knighthoods...
...great historian R.H. Tawney, when offered a title by the Prime Minister, replied, 'What have I ever done to you?' It would be nice to think that the Tom Courtenay generation gave a version of this reply, putting themselves in a superior class to Sir Elton and Sir Paul...