Word: writes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While he fought, his new bride stayed home, working in a hospital. Her sister suggested that Agatha, who was both exhausted and bored during her free time, try to write the sort of detective novel they both enjoyed reading. She did, but by the time The Mysterious Affair at Styles appeared in print, the war was over and Agatha had a daughter, and a husband, grounded at last, who seemed chiefly interested in making money and playing golf...
...lobbyists who have trooped through his department over the past four months. The oil and gas industry, for years the sheltered favorite of congressional committees, successfully persuaded Baker to restore up to two-thirds of the tax breaks knocked out by Treasury I. The oil-depletion allowance and fast write-offs for drilling have been at least partly preserved. Without incentives, the oil lobby argued, new energy sources would go untapped, making the U.S. more dependent on foreign oil. The oilmen even wangled a meeting with the President, who was reported to be fully conversant with oil tax shelters, having...
Harris' emphasis on the universality of early psychic damage veers close to the traditional Christian concept of original sin. As a result, other transactional analysts have regularly accused the Harrises of determinism, a charge that their new book attempts to deflect. "At each juncture of life," they write, "we have had choices to make regardless of what our parents told us or showed us. We have said both...
...About four years ago, I used to live in the East Village. I used to love hanging out at the Roxy with all the break dancers and graffiti artists and the deejays. Everybody had a tag name they would write on the wall like "Whiz Kid" or "Hi-Fi." The thing was to see how much you could "throw up" (get your name up) everywhere. It was a very territorial thing. One day I just thought of BOY TOY, and when I threw it up on a wall, everybody said they thought it was funny too. They understood the humor...
...income and thus taxable at up to 35%. Treasury II would retain roughly the current rate for these gains, a maximum of 20% for individuals, and may even phase in more generous treatment later. Business leaders have been fiercely fighting to protect accelerated depreciation, which permits companies to take write-offs for new investments more quickly than those assets depreciate. The new plan will retain some form of speeded depreciation. In addition, the oil and gas lobbies are likely to win the retention of such tax breaks as oil-depletion allowances and fast write-offs for exploratory drilling costs. Despite...