Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proceedings open with a suitably clever premise-grade-A Alec Guinness, actually. Four respectable citizens, pillars of a Fairfield County country club, have lost their upper-tax-bracket jobs during the present little economic adjustment. They make up the champagne casualties - the affluent walking wounded. Sandy Campbell is an ex-vice president of a mutual fund, shot down with the market. Jack Carmody is an ex-ad-agency ace, gone up in smoke with his TV cigarette accounts. Sam Deitsch is a dress manufacturer who laid it on the hemline for the midi. Harry Price is all the has-beens...
Brown started picking up penalties in the second period, and Harvard turned its ensuing territorial advantage into some momentum and a 2-0 lead. Larry Desmond drew first blood at 8:17, tipping a Tommy Paul centering pass high into the upper lefthand corner...
...gains-the profits on stocks, real estate or other investments that have been held for six months or more. Previously, as an incentive for private investors to expand the economy, the highest tax on such gains was 25%, a far smaller bite than that on regular income in the upper tax brackets. Under the new law, the tax on capital gains for many high-income people can be as much as 35%; under highly complex rules that add still other taxes, it can go up to 45.5%. At the same time Congress sliced the maximum personal tax on salaries...
Harvard came back early in the second period to narrow the gap to one, as Larry Desmond finished off a long rush with an upper right hand corner wrist shot through Cornell's fading defense. The Crimson continued to pressure Cornell goalie Dave Elenbaas for ten minutes, but despite two Cornell penalties and a Dave Hynes slap shot that hit the post, Cornell maintained its lead...
...dealing with Oldenburg's unbuildable projects is to see them as monstrous parodies of this situation. In 1965, he dreamed up a monument for upper Central Park in the form of a giant teddy bear: this woebegone and helpless image was, for Oldenburg, "an incarnation of white conscience; as such, it fixes white New York with an accusing glance from Harlem but also one glassy-eyed from desperation. This may be why I chose a toy with the 'amputated' effect of teddy paws-handlessness signifies society's frustrating lack of tools...