Word: waging
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...data on this tax swing aren't out yet, but there's plenty of other evidence. For one thing, while income tax revenues are up sharply, Social Security and Medicare tax receipts have remained flat as a share of the economy. "That tells you it isn't the average wage earner whose taxes are going up," says Steuerle. Another sign is that capital-gains taxes, paid mostly by the wealthy, doubled from...
...this funny American and started furiously brushing away the dirty feathers and bits of dried manure from the patch of Broadway in front of him, making the odors and motes rise and swirl as she cleared a place for him to step. When she came for her wage, he noticed that his writing pencil was still gripped tight in his hand, so he ceremoniously placed both it and a penny in the girl's open palm. She glanced up quizzically, registered his smile, winked her good eye and plunged the pencil like a bodkin into one of her braids, shouting...
...president of the National Foreign Trade Council.O’Flaherty also criticized a bill pending in the Massachusetts legislature that would divest state pension funds from select companies doing business with Sudan. “Our point is to defend the prerogative of executive and federal government to wage a unitary foreign policy,” O’Flaherty said. Last month, a federal judge declared unconstitutional a similar law, from Illinois, that would have barred state-backed investments in overseas companies dealing with Sudan. But other panelists at the debate said the proposed Massachusetts bill would...
...needs to act soon. The year 2010 marks the nation's bicentennial, and many fear that if Mexico doesn't hit the road to real development--especially a higher-wage economy--during Caldern's presidency, the country may face yet another century of Third World malaise. "If he wants to be a relevant President, he has to transform Mexico," says Luis de la Calle, a former trade undersecretary and prominent business consultant...
...that, Spinetta wrought a minor miracle: finding the elusive "third way" between the protective, paternalist policies of welfare-state systems and the dog-eat-dog free-market approaches of U.S. and British firms that send French workers running to the barricades. Spinetta managed that with a mix of wage restrictions in exchange for equity in the newly privatized company...