Word: deductionism
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Advocates of the volunteer army have also suggested that men taken by the "transitional draft" be compensated for their involuntary service by an income tax deduction -- not a credit -- of $600 a year for ten years.
*Assuming the standard 10% deduction and an average state tax payment of 1.2%.
Flying Kites. Although one Yale administrator says, "You're losing status if you pay your own way," many a professor actually shells out the cost of a trip related to his work, perhaps hoping that at least part of it will come back as a tax deduction. One example...
> Chloramphenicol (Chloromycetin), though one of the most dangerous drugs in wide use, is by far the best for typhoid fever. In the Philippines, among 408 charity patients suffering from typhoid, chloramphenicol was deliberately withheld from 157, of whom 36 died. Only 20 died among the 251 who got the standard...
With no clues, how can the police solve a string of burglaries committed by a professional who is never caught in the act? Not by fingerprints, wristwatch radios and brilliant deduction. What it takes is tedious, routine police work-hiring informers, watching known burglars, and questioning suspicious persons. Even then...