Word: standardizing
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Marketed as a Valentine's Day present to tax-obsessed lovers, the bill would close the marriage gap for those who currently suffer from it by increasing the standard deduction for two-earner households and raising the payments to married couples under the Earned Income Tax Credit, a worthy program that supports the working poor. However, the bill would also move many well-off married couples from the 28-percent to the 15-percent tax bracket, regardless of whether they were affected by the marriage penalty or not. As a result, according to the research group Citizens for Tax Justice...
...opportunity for a tax cut, and rather than be left portrayed as anti-marriage, the Democrats decided to join in to the tune of $89 billion over 10 years. The Democratic alternative, rejected before the GOP bill's passage, would have called for increases in the standard deduction and the EITC, costing only half as much and giving 60 percent of its benefits to households earning less than $50,000 annually. Clinton and Texas Gov. George W. Bush have both put forward more focused plans which are even less expensive...
...jealous of their department is to invite a comparison that can only be interpreted to mean that we do not reach a standard of which you can be proud," she added...
...jailed--and Hispanics seven times more likely--than are young white offenders. "Discrimination against kids of color accumulates at every stage of the justice system and skyrockets when juveniles are tried as adults," says Dan Macallair, a co-author of the new study. "California has a double standard: throw kids of color behind bars, but rehabilitate white kids who commit comparable crimes...
Everett's field of inquiry expands to include the strange appeal of popular music: "When a song is a standard, it can reproduce itself from one of its constituent parts. If you recite the words you will hear the melody." Everett imagines a group called the Midrash Jazz Quartet performing Old Testament-style exegeses on such works as Me and My Shadow and Stardust...