Word: discarded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kemp Commission will attempt to duck the toughest issues. It will advocate a tax with a single, low rate to replace the current five-rate system. But it will leave to the politicians the question whether to keep, trim or discard the mortgage-interest and charitable write-offs. It also will leave open the possibility of retaining the tax incentives for retirement plans like the 401(k). A partial draft of its report does not say where the flat rate or the personal exemption should be set. Although the draft does not contain it now, the report might even allow...
...like the firms recruiting them, hold making money as the paramount goal. Again we realize that this description probably fits a portion of the senior class (and that high paying jobs may be especially attractive to those with the burden of large student loans), but we are unwilling to discard our naivete wholesale and ascribe greed and selfishness to the same students who have filled the ranks of PBHA service programs. We cannot be ignorant of their undeniable good fortune. One must wonder how it is that Harvard students, who have been the beneficiaries of all that society...
...days of Roseanne Roseannadanna and "Jane, you ignorant slut!" are long gone. But to those who cannot remember them, the Saturday Night Live of the mid-1990s must seem like some flavorless leftover that Mom and Dad--those mockable aging baby boomers--refuse to discard from the fridge. Still, the fate of Lorne Michaels' legendary, revolutionary late-night comedy show continues to fascinate as almost no other show on TV does; what happens to it matters...
...this country's guiding principles is that no one can be "too successful." It's as though those approximately 80 million Americans would prefer that Jews discard prospects for higher education and career advancement. Throughout history, Jews have been seen as " too powerful," thought an inherently base race...
...form of love. Lesbian love is marked by an absence of a dominated party and a dominating party. Thus lesbian relationships are characterized by perfect equality of partners. Lesbian love also allows us to move away from narrow and repressive notions of phallocentric love. Thanks to lesbians, we can discard outdated, penetration driven models of intimacy that have created so much trouble in the world...