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Beyond VAT, Swedes face an awesome array of levies. The Social Democratic Party, which has held power for 40 years, holds that taxes should aim at demolishing accumulated wealth. Many high-income "tax exiles" have fled abroad to conserve the remains of their fortunes. The sharpest wrench for the middle class and the rich is the "wealth" tax, which requires individuals to list the value of their worldly goods-jewelry, cars, house, securities, bank accounts-and pay an annual 1% levy on any amount above $31,000. Income from investments-dividends on stock, interest on bonds, rent on real estate...
...Mitchell, the change of jobs is a wrench. Despite his pronouncements of distaste for the job of Attorney General, he has enjoyed it. In his new role as campaign chief, he will have responsibilities much the same as those he handled in 1968, when he directed Nixon's White House bid; the only difference is that this year he will run the campaign with absolutely unchallenged authority...
...called that because a 91-year-old automotive pioneer named Loren Hardeman sees his great-granddaughter Betsy swimming naked one day, and this makes him think about cars, and he decides to come out of retirement, wrench control of his company from his stodgy grandson Loren 111, and build a splendid new automobile to be called the Betsy. Cynics may mutter at this point that Robbins is the only North American still extant who confuses girls with sedans. But no! Hailey's novel also jubilates over the introduction of a new auto. It may explain something to point...
...minutes later, Phil Lawson, the man who had announced Jackson's death, returned to the floor with a resolution that would wrench the assembly...
Later the astronauts were confronted by the first plumbing crisis in space: Endeavour s drinking-water tank developed a leak. Like any suburban homeowner, Scott whipped out a wrench stowed for just such an emergency, tightened a suspect valve and succeeded in stemming the flow. "We had a small flood up here," he said. "All we have to do now is hang up a few towels...