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Meanwhile, a huge bite of the company revenue goes to support a royal regime that is itself a fantastic blend of East and West, ancient and modern. The money pours in like a flash flood in a dry wadi but it flows out even faster. This year's government budget estimates a deficit of close to $60 million. Little of the huge sums that are spent trickle past the palace gates into the hands of ordinary Saudis...
...Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes had been sold at ?i apiece. Half the money went for prizes and a fourth for overhead of the Hospitals Trust-still directed by ex-I.R.A. Fighter Joe McGrath, one of three sportsmen who first sponsored the sweeps. After the government took its bite for stamp duty, there was 38. gd. (52?) left out of each ticket for the hospitals. The week's haul of $1,830,000 made a total of $110 million for the 25 years since the thrice-yearly s'weeps began. No other nation has ever achieved in this short...
...exhibit of tropical plants, the President encountered the alligator, a three-footer from Florida. When the attendant said that the grinning reptile would bite, the President backed up. "Well," he said, "he's not going to bite...
...pompous, jowly boss: "I hate reminding you about that raise, Mr. Doaks, but my husband keeps nagging me about it." Some fans believe Clark is at his best on the domestic scene, e.g., an adolescent daughter, about to leave on a date with her boy friend, puts the bite on her father: "I'll need more, Dad. Eddie and I go dutch treat, but I have to lend him his half...
...spent years building up his business and, in effect, deferring his capital gain from it, would be in such a high bracket when he sold out that the tax would take most of his profit. But as the Government's need for cash rose, the capital-gains bite became larger, along with every other kind of levy. Under the present law, a person who takes a capital gain on an asset held for less than six months must pay a tax on his profit at the regular income-tax rate. But on property held for longer than six months...