Word: enrichment
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Such deductible investments have become a headache for the Internal Revenue Service. In all, they represent investments of an estimated $50 billion and can cost the Government billions of dollars annually in uncollected revenue. They help swell the federal deficit, enrich tax lawyers and arouse the ire and envy of less-well-to-do taxpayers. Asked what his four biggest problems are, Roscoe L. Egger Jr., commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, is fond of saying, "Tax shelters, tax shelters, tax shelters and tax shelters...
...worry. What may, at first, be a commercial inconvenience will surely, in the end, turn into an artistic coup. Terms of Endearment does work off the conventions that rule more ordinary movies, but only to enrich its own singular voice. Its quirky rhythms and veering emotional tones are very much its own, and they owe less to movie tradition than they do to a sense of how the law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective. Terms comes to at least glancing terms with almost every problem a person is likely to encounter...
...kind of society Reagan is building won't be able to support a strong foreign policy," he says. "I know what view of society animated Reagan. He says to a certain class of Americans, I am your President, enrich yourselves. It's a kind of conservatism without moral obligation, a rapacious self-enriching doctrine...
Gadol said yesterday that the council's purpose is to "enrich and publicize what already exists, and to encourage and incite where nothing exists...
...this reason, a newer chorus of experts says, computers should be employed neither as automated tutors to deliver the content of standard courses nor as tools to train junior programmers, but as resources to enrich the curriculum. "One of the best uses of computers for high school students would be to help teach kids to write," says Henry Becker, director of an ongoing Johns Hopkins classroom-technology study. But Becker estimates that high school computers are being used for word processing less than 7% of the time...