Word: phantoms
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...murderer dubbed the Phantom of Heilbronn had been baffling German investigators for two years. The criminal was a rarity, a female serial killer, and a very busy one: police had linked DNA evidence from 40 crimes - including the infamous homicide of a policewoman in the southern German town of Heilbronn - to the same woman...
Rapport also conducted a control experiment with the boys in which they watched the pod-racing scene from Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace. He showed me a video of a couple of the boys watching the scene, and I was shocked: even the ADHD kids who had spun around endlessly during their cognitive tests sat perfectly still while they watched the pod race. The film clip required almost no working memory, no concentrated effort. The scene simply washed over the passively watching boys, none of whom had to move around to stay alert...
...addition, victims who are part of partnerships, or small businesses, will be able to go back 5 years to recover investments and phantom monies. Previously, it appeared victims could only go back three years. With this new ruling, a theft loss deduction that creates a net operating loss for the taxpayer can be carried back five years and forward 20 years to generate a refund of taxes paid in other taxable years...
...handle this, but some things will be given up," Goldstein said. Those include, he says, the right to recovery by mitigation ("mitigating" or amending closed returns), claim of rights (a tax credit equal to taxes paid on Ponzi income to original investment), and amending returns based solely on phantom income (removing Ponzi or phantom income going back three years...
...hard to believe but, as in many nations, the domestic front matters more to Iranians than the phantom menace of Israel and the U.S. Iran's economy is crippled by debt and inflation and a government that has grown moribund and ineffectual. That is the real situation with which Iranians contend. Soraya Sharif, Melbourne...