Word: bracket
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...sold, unlike interest and dividends, which are taxed every year. An ideal free-market tax system would leave an investor indifferent between, say, a savings account paying 10% a year and a stock expected to rise 10% a year. But tax-free compounding means that, for a top- bracket taxpayer the after-tax profit on the stock will be 45% bigger after 20 years...
...team of DeLone and Cooper, seeded sixth in the doubles bracket, is also considered a good threat to take the tourney crown. The two posted a 7-4 record this fall...
DeLone, seeded 11th, is considered Harvard's only real threat in the singles bracket after accumulating a 3-5 record at first singles this fall for the Crimson. Included among deLone's five losses this fall was a tough three-set match against the tournament's number-two seed...
RAISING THE TOP BRACKET. Right now the top marginal tax rate rises to 33% for people earning roughly $50,000 to $200,000, then falls back down to 28%. It's hard to argue that this is fair, though I've loved every minute of it. If the top marginal rate stuck at 33% -- for the rich and not just the upper middle class -- it would raise billions that could be used to lower other taxes...
Continuing through the middle of November, the Bunting Institute's most recent exhibition. "Present Works" features visiting artists in the Harvard-Radcliffe community. Among those whose works are on exhibit include Priscilla Smith Bracket, with "A Different Vision: Landscape Painting", Barbara Elam-Dimock, with "Interiors of the Northeast". Lynn M. Randolph with "A Return to Alien Roots. Painting Outside Mainstream Western Culture, and Anne Seelback with "Industrial Relics." The Bunting Artists Show is open daily at the Institute Gallery from...