Word: treatment
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...think the solution would be easy: treat all taxpayers as though they were single. But this is the tax code. Nothing is simple. That treatment would remove a so-called marriage bonus now enjoyed by 25 million "dominant earners." A single person making $60,000 pays about $11,599 to the IRS. But if that person marries, and the spouse stays home with the kids, the tax bite drops about...
Conservatives have an easy explanation for these forgiving attitudes toward the President's private treatment of women. They say Clinton-loving feminists, as if following the how-to-catch-a-man Rules manual, have chosen to overlook the faults of a man who has been their best provider. Ideals be damned for the President who vetoed the ban on partial-birth abortions...
...such as "Johnny" Wang Liang, a hairdresser who left fashion-conscious Guangzhou "because it was already full of people like me." Wang finds Wuhan fairly tame and doesn't like the food, but he is making good money dyeing orange the hair of the local youth at $25 a treatment, to create that Hong Kong fashion look. "It is all about money in China these days, isn't it?" he says with a grin...
AILING. SHARI LEWIS, 64, the pixie-like puppeteer who gave life to Lamb Chop; with uterine cancer. The 12-time Emmy winner says she will continue production of her latest show, The Charlie Horse Music Pizza, during treatment...
Although I work for the New York Times, I'm writing you as a cancer patient undergoing treatment. You maligned science reporter Gina Kolata's Times article on new cancer drugs for creating "false hopes" in patients most in need of a breakthrough [SPECIAL REPORT: CURING CANCER, May 18]. Not only does your own follow-up reporting belie that charge (clearly there is sufficient new hope to call for a TIME cover story), but if you interview enough cancer patients, you'll find that hope is its own drug, false or not. Are you implying that cancer patients would rather...