Word: bracket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Khrushchev has long had ambitions to move many Muscovites far beyond Sputnikville. Two years ago he eliminated scores of Moscow bureaus, ordered 60,000 employees, from charwomen to ranking executives, moved to regional councils thousands of miles away. Last week it developed that many upper-bracket wives had refused to join their husbands in the sticks. Komsomolskaya Pravda summoned seven such wives to its offices to find out why they were not with their husbands in provincial Sverdlovsk, in the Urals. First the women talked of Moscow's culture and comforts, but when assured that Sverdlovsk has culture...
...push for tax increases to keep the state solvent. Republicans in the legislature have proposed to blot up the red ink by upping the sales tax to 4%, but Soapy Williams adamantly opposes any sales tax boost, urges instead a progressive state income tax on middle and upper bracket incomes and a new 5% levy on corporation profits-which would worsen Michigan's already severe problem of attracting, and keeping, diversified industry...
Under the terms of the plan, an upper-bracket taxpayer can give a college securities, which are then re-invested in tax-exempt municipal bonds. The donor collects income from these bonds during his lifetime, with the principal going to the college on his death...
...minutes after the last of the first bracket of matches had been completed, word went through the gallery that Charlie Poletti had won at seventh singles, 15-8, 15-7, 15-7, to give the Crimson an insurmountable 5-0 advantage...
...denied them, others have had to find some other way out. Thus, concurrent with the expansion boom, and the cost increases, the loan program has received added emphasis. As proposed by Professor Harris, loans for financing a college education qualify as the answer for a student in any income bracket. But others, like Dean Monro, see the loan program as the answer for those in the middle income group, students caught without a scholarship. And, in Monro's words, the loan program is currently doing "a booming business...