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Mills continued: "When I talk about tax reform, I am trying to establish greater equity in the law, greater simplification of the law, greater neutrality in its effect upon business decisions. I am trying to make it easier to administer, and, from the taxpayer's point of view, easier to comply with." He added: "Anybody who enjoys some preferential treatment should be required to come to the Congress periodically and make his case before the public...
When the idea of voluntary health insurance for the U.S. germinated in the 1930s, the actuaries insisted that whatever was covered must be quantifiable, so that it could be priced. They hit upon hospitalization as a tangible item, and Blue Cross was born. But definitions of hospital costs are so complex that ever since, while it has expanded into 45 states, Blue Cross has been involved in haggles with state insurance departments over rates...
Nina's singing and piano playing rank her with Aretha Franklin at the top of the female jazz, blues and soul camp. On piano, she can tinkle along simply like Count Basic or pile chord upon chord like Rubinstein playing Tchaikovsky. At times, her voice has the reedy wobble of a Dixieland clarinet, but it can also whisper, wail, or break in above the instrumental accompaniment like an Indian shehnai. As Ray Charles notes, nobody ever comes close to imitating her, or even trying, "probably because everybody knows she's the only...
...genetic monster of dubious value to research. Caged and bred in captivity for more than a century, it is a man-made abomination-fat and degenerate, faithful neither to its wild ancestry nor to its laboratory role as a distorted mirror of man. "Theories are tested upon it," says Lockard. "Students are trained with it, and generalizations are based upon it. If albinus is misleading, so are many of the products of psychology...
...efforts to reduce turbulence, Whitcomb finally hit upon the design for what NASA now calls the "supercritical wing." To reduce the peak airflow speed and move the shock wave farther back on the wing, he drastically flattened the curvature of the upper wing surface. To compensate for the loss of lift that resulted, he increased the curvature near the wing's trailing edge and put a concave contour on the underside. "Some people think that I merely turned the wing upside down," Whitcomb says...