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Although most economists agreed that a VAT can successfully achieve horizontal equity, a traditional criticism focuses on vertical equity since the VAT is allegedly regressive. There are two problems with this criticism.
If I play my miles right, in fact, I need never leave the plane. As soon as I embark, I can buy things -- key chains, duty-free perfumes, souvenirs and razors -- and put them on my credit card. Then I can acquire more goods on the Airfone, charged to my...
Earthquakes tend to exert greater force horizontally than vertically, usually twice as much or more. What seems to have been unusual in the Northridge quake -- which seismologists now said may have struck with two successive pulses -- was a superior vertical force. This caused some buildings that would have survived back...
"He struck the vertical stabilizer in the rear of the aircraft causing it to go into a vertical tailspin from which it never recovered," Mary Culver, a spokesperson for the Federal Aviation Administration, said in a telephone interview yesterday.
The Piper's wreckage lay Monday in woods one mile from the airport, its nose dug into the ground and its wing wrapped around a tree. Guzzetti said part of its rudder and the entire vertical tail fin, a three-foot-tall triangle of aluminum, were ripped off the craft...