Word: anyways
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Anyway, Weisbrod had always thought that the only pro-style college hockey was played in the West. The Ivy League? Forget about it. Under parental pressure, the burly forward made a verbal commitment to the University of Denver, which offered a scholarship and a chance to play in the NHL-feeder WCHA...
...contrary to the saying, the grass isn't always greener on the other side of the fence. Or so one man says. Anyway, your hour's up and it's time to go back to work on your thesis...
...current tax system discriminates against capital gains in one way: it ignores inflation. If a stock has doubled during a time when the general price level has also doubled, the real profit is zero, but you'll pay a capital- gains tax anyway when you sell. Of course, the same is true of interest -- an 8% return on a money-market fund at a time of 5% inflation is really only 3% -- but no one is proposing to do anything about that. Furthermore, no one is proposing to limit the deduction for interest paid. In a world with no taxes...
...conference. The temperature in the hall will probably be more comfortable than it was when he gave his "I am an environmentalist" speech in the hot summer of 1988. But unless he has more to show on the greenhouse effect than rhetoric, the President should be mopping his brow anyway -- at least in embarrassment, and perhaps in anxiety for the future of the planet...
What's all this nationalism, anyway? This is increasingly one world, and the goal is for the whole globe to prosper, not to have the Japanese shun our rice, or we their cars, out of tribal paranoia. So what if Detroit just laid off more than 24,000 workers, with predictions of more to come...