Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...excellent condition-a regimen of ten miles a day on the track, weight training and yoga-to be fit enough to flee through the rough, hilly terrain outside the prison. In addition, he must have been aware that Lompoc was in the process of converting to its new maximum security status. Within two months officials will install a sophisticated $67,000 alarm system along the inner fence that will sense the slightest pressure and would have detected his escape effort last week. Boyce made his move just in time. Says Chief U.S. Deputy Marshal James Propotnick...
...federal, state, local and Social Security taxes took 16.1% out of the average person's income. Last year the total hit a rec ord 18.5%. For those earning more than $25,900, Social Security taxes will increase by $183.90 this year, to $1,587.67. Next year the maximum bill will swell to $1,975.05, as part of a $16 billion increase in payroll taxes. A family of four earning $25,000 will need a raise of $3,325 this year to keep up with current inflation. But they will still remain be hind because that pay in crease would...
...crude oil decontrol, which is helping to cut energy consumption by raising petroleum prices to the world level, acceptable to both the Congress and the public. Whatever its political virtues, the tax hardly seems geared to help meet another key energy policy goal: boosting domestic oil production to the maximum. Instead of using tax incentives to coax as much crude as possible from the ground, the compromise so far amounts to little more than a confusing grab bag of mini-taxes. The three main components...
...fictitious, inflated profits. We ought to eliminate capital gains taxes or index them, that is, reduce those taxes to take account of inflation. As it is, well over half of the capital gains taxes are paid by people who have incomes under $50,000. We ought to cut maximum taxes on income from 70% to 50%. That would reduce tax collections by only 1.1%, but it would stimulate a lot of investment...
...maximum sum in damages the group could win in court is $750, Esty said. He added that he has placed a notice of his intentions in Winthrop House dining hall, inviting others to join him. As of last night, about 15 groups of subscribers had singed the notice...