Word: equalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Many parents would rather stay at home with their children than put them in day care. But this is difficult, as the current income tax deduction of $2000 per dependent would have to be raised to nearly $6000 to equal its real dollar value of the 1950s. Reform is needed, not more intervention...
...winnings as income (prizes to Americans, including the Nobels, used to be exempt, but no longer are). The notion of taxing people like Kenyan Michael Werikhe, who is fighting to save the black rhino, has foundation officials fuming. Says one: "Just the amount withheld for the Federal Government is equal in some cases to five times their annual earnings...
...because America remains Hollywood's largest single market, studios spend prodigiously to promote their films at home. Marketing expenses can equal the cost of producing a picture. Says Mara Balsbaugh, an industry analyst for Smith Barney: "It used to cost $5 million to $6 million to open a movie. Now it costs $15 million." To make a big splash, a major film might open on as many as 2,100 screens. The prints alone, at $2,000 apiece, would cost $4.2 million...
...work ahead of me, and I know what the road is. I know a bunch of different roads to get there. If I get to the Olympics, that says age is no difference. I will have proved that. Then who are you going to bet on? All things being equal, you go with the guy who's been on the block more times than the next guy. I've been on the block at the Olympics about 25 times. I personally wouldn't want to swim against Mark Spitz in the Olympics...
...with Halloran, any move in that direction would encounter huge political land mines. Harry Truman once tried to slash the Marines on the grounds that the Navy did not need its own army, but he was beaten by what he described as a Leatherneck "propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's." Aside from the clout of ten Senators and 21 Representatives in the current Congress who served in the Marines, the corps exudes such a mystical aura that it is unassailable...