Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many of the nation's 90 million workers and their employers who contribute to Social Security this clause all but guarantees an ever-expanding tax outlay every year. Middle-and upper-income workers will begin paying for the latest boost in January, when the base on which the tax is collected is extended from its present $10,800 to $13,200. That means that the maximum deduction will go from $631.80 in 1973 to $772.20 this year, even though the tax rate will remain firm...
MOST GRIPPING SOAP OPERA: An American Family (PBS), about the Louds, which showed how the world turns in the upper-middle-class, California division...
...powerful finance ministry. Fukuda, an apostle of fiscal orthodoxy, has so far done little to check the feeling of governmental drift. Although his appointment was widely praised by business leaders, it has failed to quell intraparty squabbling. "All they seem to care about is how it will affect the Upper House elections in July," said one Western diplomat last week...
...Fred Jewett '57, dean of admissions and financial aid, said yesterday that he "will try to expand financial aid at the upper end" to compensate for inflation. "We don't want to be priced out of the market," he said...
...before Christmas vacation arrived, we had a party in Latin class and played Roman charades. Miss Davis had worn her sorority pin. A sign of a holiday, it was a bangle that covered the entire upper left ventral portion of her anatomy--it looked like a war decoration. She was in a fine humor, giggling and talking about her father who had died in the nineteen twenties...