Word: moneys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Following in the footsteps of one's father is a strong tradition in Japan, evident in fields as different as Big Business, the Kabuki theater and sumo wrestling. But in politics the custom has been intensified by the commitments of money and time involved in cultivating constituents...
Filing a federal income-tax return used to be cheap but slow: 25 cents for the stamp and as much as eight weeks for the refund check. But now most U.S. taxpayers can take a high-tech shortcut. For anywhere from $25 to $75, filers can get their money in as little as two weeks by having their return sent electronically by one of 18,000 tax preparers and transmitters. After a four- year test run, the Internal Revenue Service for the first time is making its electronic filing system available in all 50 states this year...
Rowlandson's energy is infectious. It fairly seethes in images like A Gaming Table at Devonshire House, 1791, where two of the wild aristocratic beauties of the day -- Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, and her sister Lady Bessborough -- preside like maenads over the eddy of faces, dicing table and money, and a lecherous buck offers a woman a purse which, none too subtly, is shaped like a pair of testicles...
...souped-up performance of GM's European branch offers a jarring contrast to the declining horsepower of the parent company in the U.S. While the European side has been earning a profit of $1,200 a car, the North American automaking operations are now losing money, analysts say. And while GM Europe boosted its market share from 8.4% in 1980 to 11% last year, the domestic company's portion of the U.S. car market fell from 46% to 35% during the same period. Why the sharp disparity in performance? A close look reveals that the two sides...
...Pontiac Grand Prix, all of which shared components with one another. In spite of GM's huge investment in retooling and reorganization, the result was a car line that has failed to excite consumers. Further weakened by a slumping U.S. auto market, the Olds Cutlass has turned into a money loser...