Word: arrays
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Corporations have long employed small armies of accountants and lawyers to find methods of legally avoiding taxes. These are often very successful. First Chicago Corp. (1981 assets: $33.6 billion) was able to use an array of credits, deductions and tax-exempt investments to eliminate all U.S. taxes on its 1980 income of $48 million. A recent Tax Analysts and Advocates survey sorted 405 major firms into industry groups and found that in 1980 they paid a median tax rate of 24%, well below the corporate ceiling...
Many bankers and brokers, though, have been disappointed. Provident Institution for Savings in Boston has drawn about $1 million a month from outside the bank into retirement accounts, only half what it expected. Provident's president, Thomas S. Zocco, thinks many customers are confused by the bewildering array of IRA plans and are holding back until they can figure out which IRA offer is best...
...deterrence were to fail and the Soviets fired the first shot, the SIOP is intended to give the President an elaborate array of carefully calibrated choices for retaliation. The task would be twofold and exquisitely difficult: on the one hand, to react in a way that would both punish the Soviets for what they had done and limit their ability to do more, while at the same time to avoid overreacting, so as not to provoke an all-out follow-up attack in which the Soviets throw everything they have...
Gurney uses the room as a kind of revolving door for life's large and little ironies. Through it troop generations of disparate families as well as a feudal array of maids much given to the response "Yes, Missus." In the first episode, a brother and sister who have inherited the house argue testily about which of them is to have the dining room. Subsequently, an architect advises a psychiatrist purchaser of the house to split the room up into his office and a reception area...
...women's team is no weak sister. Junior Rony Sebok captain a group which also nailed up an impressive array of awards in the fall, garnering four out of the five trophies they sailed for and rising to a number-two national ranking by first freeze...