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Corporate accountants have long been worked hard to find ways to trim their companies' tax bite. Of the, 2.4 million corporations that filed returns in 1978, fully 64% were able to avoid all federal income taxes, either because they had no earnings or because they creatively made use of investment tax credits or other IRS technicalities. The maximum tax rate for companies...
What you should strive for in no-salt cooking is contrasts in flavors and textures. When you cook green beans or asparagus, for example, they should be slightly undercooked to keep their "bite"-what the Italians call al dente...
Nims offers himself as an old-fashioned lover of forms, both female and poetic. He bows gracefully to ottava rima, the sonnet and ballad. "Verse without rhyming was a toothless mouth," he insists at one point; elsewhere, he disguises his own bite with barely detectable assonances like "hankering" and "merry thing." He toys with words to tickle emotions. In "Dawn Song," a man gets up after a night of lovemaking and praise from his partner, and faces himself in the bathroom mirror...
...would be an unprecedented gesture; it might begin to assuage the deep resentment that still persists. It might also avoid future legal and regulatory struggles, ones more complicated than ever before. Before choosing to ignore the community again. MATEP officials might try to imagine how viciously the underdog will bite back if it finds its home is being seriously threatened for real and not just on paper...
Another famous trial, that of Theodore Bundy, has greatly helped to increase the use of bite-mark evidence. Bundy was convicted in 1979 of murdering two sorority sisters after photographs of bites found on one of them were matched with impressions taken of Bundy's teeth. Since then, the use of bite evidence has "skyrocketed," says Miami Dentist Richard Souviron, a frequent witness-not only in sex-murder cases but child-abuse investigations as well...