Word: fixedness
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Sick and tired of paying your income taxes? Bill Archer (R-Tx.) wants to make it so you never have to do it again.Declaring the federal income tax "too broken to be fixed,"the House Ways and Means Committee chairman has begun a week of hearings aimed at junking the...
"It's hard to take seriously that a nation has deep problems," a former French Foreign Minister once said of the U.S., "if they can be fixed with a 50¢-a-gal. gasoline tax." True, at this point it will take more than a 50¢ gas tax to cure the...
This is bad news for Colin Powell. He remains an enormously attractive public figure, but his ideological opacity is no longer a political asset. The source of his political attraction is that he represents a kind of respectable Perotism, a national hero without fixed-without known!-ideological convictions who is...
"The harsh truth is that in our modern economy,a great number of people live on a fixed income,"Galbraith said.
The early efforts seem to have been rewarded. The A.N.C. took over an economy eviscerated by nearly two decades of sanctions and siege-mentality policies. But in 1994 South Africa's gross domestic product grew 2.3%, the largest increase in five years. Meanwhile, inflation has been running below 10%. In...