Word: subjecting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...arms rose up and the hands thrust out, rally-style, turning shoulder pads into great hulking wings, giving the reverential crowd their big Brahmin in all his glory, soaring in call-and-response - "Fight for Al Gore because... HE IS FIGHTING FOR YOU" - like a linebacker angel. The subject was health care, which surely Gore needs to own, but the word, again and again, was "All." Health care, Kennedy's shining issue, for all our children. All our seniors. All our people. If memory serves, that is farther than Al Gore has ever been willing...
...From JFK to JFK Jr., no subject can inspire the media to greater heights of fawning royalist bloviation than the Kennedys. They are our royalty, the clich? goes, and all of us in the press, their obsequious court minstrels. Los Angeles was, after all, where the Democrats met in 1960 to nominate a young Massachusetts senator named blah blah blah - already the most abused factoid of this convention...
...survey after survey, owners cite the estate tax as a top concern. They are worried that heirs will have to sell the business to pay the tax. Critics of repeal rightly point out that only 2% of all estates are subject to the tax, thanks to exemptions already in place, and that only 3% of the estates taxed are family farms or businesses...
...businesses that get sold prior to an owner's death--precisely to avoid the estate tax. By selling before death, a small-business owner may avoid the death tax in exchange for paying a capital-gains tax at a rate of just 20%. Proceeds from the sale remain subject to the estate tax, but liquid assets are far more easily sheltered through trusts, charitable contributions and annual gifts...
...little touchy on this subject just now because my wife Mary is on strike, and has been for 14 weeks. She and some other white-collar workers at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City are striking to raise the base pay from $17,000 to $20,000 and retain medical and other insurance benefits. The strikers have the support of prominent artists (like Sol LeWitt) and filmmakers (like Steven Spielberg). But the MOMA brass remain firm. "We think we've given a generous offer, and we're competitive with others in the field," a spokeswoman says...