Word: transferals
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...levy has been labeled the Robin Hood tax by one economist because it helps transfer money from the rich to the poor. Not everyone sees it that way, however. A rare chorus of blue-chip retailers and blue-collar workers denounces it as a disaster tax. At issue is the six-month-old "luxury tax" that Congress adopted last year as part of a comprehensive deficit-reduction plan. The new 10% excise tax was tacked onto such goods as pleasure boats, private airplanes, jewelry and fur. While the tax bite is not particularly severe -- a minuscule $25 million is expected...
...decision still provides for a partial compromise. The Chancellor's office, the Bundestag and key officials in the ministries will go to Berlin, but thousands of bureaucrats are to remain in Bonn. The transfer, which will cost more than $30 billion, will take 10 to 12 years...
Scientists working with artificial intelligence have a fantasy -- who knows if it is more than that? -- that eventually all the contents of the human brain, a life, can be gradually emptied into a brilliant, nondecaying, stainless, deathless sort of robotic personoid. And when the transfer of all the vast and intricately nuanced matter of the mind and soul has been accomplished, the memories of the cells etched onto microchips, the human body, having been replicated in a better container, will be allowed to wither...
...Soviet Union and China have not even agreed to attend the Paris meeting. Beijing has repeatedly refused to take part in existing international controls on the transfer of missile technology and insists its own sales are always responsible. Meanwhile, French President Francois Mitterrand and British Prime Minister John Major were planning to announce their own proposals...
...myself believe in the kind of efforts to transfer resources from a well-endowed school to another by taxing one more than another," he says. "I think it's the upside you want to concentrate on. If you can identify those things where people can collaborate, you'll find donors who will want to give money...