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Figuring out their income taxes is a chore that most people keep putting off until the inevitable April 15 deadline finally compels action. But not this year. Taxpayers by the hundreds of thousands are already descending on their financial advisers, accountants and family lawyers for help in taking advantage of the more than $745 billion in various cuts and benefits in the tax package that the President signed into law last August. Says Philip K. Marblestone, of the accounting firm of Coopers & Lybrand in St. Louis: "This is one of the most important years ever to do some careful year...
...paying attention to this game won't be a chore. If nothing else. I'll watch Jim Callinan run for the last time, and few things at Harvard have been more pleasant these last three autumns than watching Jim Callinan...
...nation's best newspapers, can thrive by providing first-rate coverage, the Herald American hopes to prove there is a down-scale market for something less serious and more entertaining. Predicts Dorris: "We're going to produce a paper that is a pleasure to read, not a chore." Adds Editor Donald Forst: "The new Herald American is going to be a reader's paper, with one overriding goal: to give people something they'll want to read...
...lesser danger of one of the Israeli warplanes being shot down or crashing on its return journey. A little before 7 p.m., another telephone call announced the safe return of all aircraft. Jubilantly, the gathering celebrated the event, and the meeting broke up. Begin had only one other chore to perform. At 7 p.m., he called U.S. Ambassador to Israel Samuel Lewis with news of the successful raid. Lewis' laconic reply...
With work on his White House memoirs proving "to be enjoyable ... rather than an unpleasant chore," former President Jimmy Carter, 56, took time off to write a letter to some 500 ex-Administration staffers, giving them a folksy follow-up to his Oval Office days. "I am settling into a fairly regular routine," he writes, "rising quite early, working at the remarkable word-processing machine until daylight, running two or three miles and later during the day continuing to work on the book several hours." The down-home updater also includes domestic news. Rosalynn, 53, "has almost gotten our home...