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...often insisted that the integrity of nonpartisan application of tax laws must be protected and that political use of tax information on individuals not only violated privacy but also violated federal law governing the IRS. Non-political audits are of course commonplace. Many taxpayers are routinely audited in random checks of their returns, or because some part of their filing does not fit normal patterns and is detected and flagged by computers...
...BETWEEN THE TATES by ALISON LURIE 372 pages. Random House...
...important set of data previously unused will be that supplied by the Social Security Administration. The SSA has used a random sample of 1 per cent of all people registered with it to collect data on migration according to personal income, age, race and marital status...
Reading the book suggests that the system may work as advertised. The basketball player and what's-his-name unseal the reader's memory with a Tinker Toy assortment of mnemonic links and pegs. Assume, they say, that you want to memorize a random list of ten words: airplane, tree, envelope, earring, bucket, thing, basketball, salami, star, nose. Form a series of visual incongruities-a tree riding in an airplane, say, and then another picture of envelopes growing on trees, and another one in which millions of earrings fly out of the envelopes, and so on. The more...
...RANDOM WALK IN SCIENCE Compiled by R.L. WEBER 206 pages. Illustrated. Crane, Russak...