Tax Reform Tightens Home Office Deductions
Washington AP report details Senate action on a broad tax package. Aiming to curb home office deductions, the Senate would bar deductions when employees have other office space and would tax sick pay differently. The package also includes alimony deduction rules for divorced spouses and a permanent small business tax cut.
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Washington
Congress
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
House
Treasury
FBI Joins Hunt in Chowchilla Kidnap Case
The FBI joined a nationwide dragnet for two men linked to the Chowchilla schoolbus kidnap drama after a third suspect surrendered in Oakland. Richard Schoenfeld and brother James faced multiple kidnapping and armed robbery counts with bail set at one million each. The case centers on 26 children and their driver trapped in a quarry van for 18 hours.
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Chowchilla
Calif
FBI
Richard Allen Schoenfeld
Oakland
Alameda
Schoenfeld
James L
Frederick N. Woods IV
Jensen
Alameda County
Revelers Beat The Heat At Wellsville Celebration
JOAN ISTAS describes Wellsville Bicentennial events as temperatures rose. Highlights include a bread baking contest in the air conditioned high school, a Bicentennial tea, quilt displays spanning from 1886 to 1970s, and a Water Olympics with pajama relay. Ice cream social offered after events with ongoing displays through the weekend.
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Joan Istas
Wellsville
Wellsville High School
Arnold
William Barton
Great American Cliche creator catalogues fifty thousand phrases
Lawrence Paros, 42, moved to Providence five years ago to direct a federal learning program for high school students, has published The Great American Cliche a collection of 50,000 phrases. He says cliches are a reflection of American speech and that many have lost meaning while remaining ubiquitous and powerful. Paros cites examples attributed to Nixon Ford and Carter and notes cliches can shape public perception and discourse.
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Paros
Sandbox Test Boosts Hopes For Ailing Viking
In Pasadena AP reports Viking 1 engineers tested a plan on a duplicate lander to free a jammed soil-scooping arm, key for Martian biology samples. Repair instructions will be uploaded tonight with results due Sunday, as project director Tom Young notes potential fixes and ongoing issues with seismometer and radio circuits.
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Pasadena
Calif
Mars
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Viking
Tom Young
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Richard M. Nixon
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Ronald Ziegler
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