Word: code
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...element we have here." When the faculty wanted to eliminate Saturday classes, the students overwhelmingly voted to keep the six-day week. (They were overruled.) Undergraduates must meet strict curriculum requirements, including a third-year foreign-language literature course, and must pass comprehensive examinations in their majors. A dress code of jackets and ties for men and skirts for women is accepted by all ladies and gentlemen...
...middle-class favorite, such as interest on home mortgages or even the deductions for children ($1,000 each on the 1040 form). Indeed, every time a bill is introduced in Congress to reform the tax system, it seems to create still more exemptions and complications. The Internal Revenue code now numbers 2,062 pages of text...
There are sound reasons for allowing deductions for business lunches. But Rachel's point is pertinent nonetheless: the "three-martini lunch," as President Jimmy Carter called it, adds to the impression that the tax code rewards the well-to-do and those in favored occupations. This perception contributes to the spread of tax evasion. In an interesting experiment at the University of Colorado, a group of students were asked to declare their incomes and pay taxes of about 40%. One-third were told that everyone in the group was supposed to pay 40%, another third were told that...
Nixon said that a special group of Washington pension tax lawyers from Harvard's law firm. Ropes and Gray, had analyzed the proposed changes to the tax code and the University had expressed their "concern...
THERE is clearly something wrong with a lawyer who knowingly protects fraudulent clients. Yet the Bar Association rules as now adopted make his behavior the only route possible in the circumstances. This was not what those who spent six years drafting the code were after. They envisioned a lawyer responsible to his client, but aware and flexible in extreme situations, Robert Meserve, a Boston lawyer who now heads the Bar Association commission which produced the proposed rules, called the action taken in New Orleans "unfortunate." Both he and Geoffrey C. Hazard, a Yale law professor now visiting at Harvard...