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...because it does not include the burden of regulations. Although technically not categorized as taxes, regulations are essentially taxes, since, like taxes, they impose additional costs on businesses. For example, firms have to spend great deals of money to comply with the myriad of regulations and mounds of red tape. Last year, an estimate of Tax freedom Day which included the burdens of regulations pushed the day into July...
...first, the faint buzzing blends in with the crisp notes and trills of Glenn Gould's recording of Bach's "Prelude in C Minor." Perhaps the tape is a bad copy, or the stereo is acting up again. Then the distracting noise grows louder, more insistent, until it can no longer be dismissed as a mechanical error. In fact, it is Gould singing along with his own performance as he always did on the stage and in the recording studio. Throughout his search for technical perfection, he hummed along audibly and slightly off-key. In many ways the odd combination...
...debate was preceded by a showing of a University-produced videotape, "Not Just Black and White." In the tape, Johnson says he makes four demands of his officers: that they treat people courteously, be brief as possible when questioning suspects, apologize when they make a mistake and give their name and indentification number during each incident...
Nixon meanwhile sat out in his beach house in San Clemente, California, reading a biography of Napoleon and staring at the ocean. But he had also been listening to some of the disputed tapes, and he had found one -- the "smoking gun" -- that threatened to destroy his whole case. It was a talk with Haldeman on June 23, 1972, a time when Nixon had long pretended to know virtually nothing about the Watergate break-in just six days earlier. This tape recorded Nixon talking with Haldeman about Mitchell's involvement, ordering a cover-up, planning...
...enforcement officers rounded up 43 suspects in January, including 13 who were caught while trying to steal more than $1 million worth of computer parts from an electronics warehouse. Officers seized a total of $2 million worth of chips and other computer equipment, together with nylon masks, duct tape, ropes, gloves, walkie-talkies and five loaded guns. But while 20 suspects were swiftly tried and convicted, most face sentences of no more than six months to a year in jail and could soon be on the street again...