The Bush tax cuts are expiring this year, creating the possibility that capital gains, dividend and estate taxes will revert back to circa-2002 levels.
Mr. Myer himself lives in a circa-1880 home with plasma TVs, Lutron motorized shades, and a button marked "movie time" that dims his great room and lowers the blinds.
At the Beijing Auto Show in June, BYD's cars were an afterthought to its circa-1950s display booth, which featured two models wearing golden, shell-shaped bikini tops and matching mermaid tailfins.
On the outskirts of Omaha, Mr. Davis's sprawling 150-acre property consists of his main home, several barns, an observatory, a circa-1920s guest house and large swimming pool with a waterfall.
When I first read the story I thought it was an exchange for actual goods, like bed pans and surgical kits, a circa-1999 idea like the old Commerce One or VerticalNet.
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The birth announcement of the digital wireless era--issued circa 1995--was soon lost in an overload of Internet mania.
That is, Columbia just established an institute to study an imaginary country and a nation that was invented by the Soviets circa 1969 -- is a signal that they cannot study anything.
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The momentum argument being espoused by plenty suggests that a significant loss of games or a season wiped away (a la the NHL circa 2004-05) would do irrevocable long-term damage to the interest in the sport.
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It is important to note that initially (circa the mid-1960s) there was some slight liberalization under the Ceausescu regime, notably manifested in the release of most political prisoners.
Provenance and rarity also explain Sotheby's high estimates for the ten scientific instruments in the sale, such as a 21-inch brass telescope made circa 1800 by Jesse Ramsden , instrument-maker to King George III.
Given three years, we may look back on Wi-Fi circa 2003 and consider it quaint.
Circa is a sort-of news publishing combinatorial engine, powered by editors.
That's what Douglas Carter Beane does with "The Nance, " a dead-serious comedy set in New York circa 1937 in which Nathan Lane plays a self-hating gay man who makes a living playing outrageously effeminate gay men on the burlesque stage.
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Now let's think about the typical male-breadwinner family circa 1950.
Even in 1993, Charles still used only a plug-in calculator circa 1970, with blue keys the size of dimes, very rugged keys, which was indeed fortunate given the pounding he would give it when reproducing calculations by hand that some state-of-the-art mainframe, the pride of IBM and the size of a refrigerator, had no doubt taken many minutes to complete in some sealed room.
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In some ways Google feels like the giddy dot-coms of the stock-market bubble, circa 1999.
Rumor has it there are still a lot of DEC VAX systems, circa 1990, still running mission-critical applications.
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Although not everybody's cup of tea (on a bad day, the service can be as churlish as any greasy-spoon in Barnsley, circa 1972), its products and style are said to be enjoyed by Anglophile masochists such as Quentin Tarantino.
" Or the officer's epaulets, circa 1820: "embroidered with gilt-metal thread in scrolling foliate designs, six-pointed silver metallic stars and gilt-brass buttons.
Indian consumers, for their part, think it is wonderful: compare the average Delhi taxi (technology circa 1955) with a new, air-conditioned version, courtesy of foreign investors.
At the heart of the personal genome machine is a silicon chip with 21 million transistors on it--the equivalent of a desktop computer circa 1995.
Spot gold prices were confined to a trading range that was the tightest in circa 100 days as the summer doldrums and the tug-o-war actions between the bulls and the bears made their presence felt in the trading patterns for the precious metal.
La Tour's oil painting "The Fortune Teller" (circa 1630) captures the onlookers' fascination with an exotic-looking gypsy fortune teller, but also a wariness.
When Apple Maps launched, it was apparent that they had made a very nice looking product, but functionality-wise it was probably comparable to Google Maps circa 2007.
Sandler is Robbie Hart, who was once the lead singer of a high-school rock group and six years later, circa 1985, has risen only as far as playing master of ceremonies at Connecticut weddings.
The computer under the dash of a BMW 7-series sedan is on par with a Pentium PC circa 1997.
Circa is the latest entrant and to some extent, it is re-imagining news on mobile.
The patron saint was born circa 542AD at Menevia, which is now called St David's - home of the famous cathedral on the Pembrokeshire coast.
Schirrmann-Hamkens brought up the turkeys because their appearance in a mural allegedly painted circa 1300 was surprising: Turkeys are New World birds believed to have first been introduced to Europe by the Spaniards in the 1550s.
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Circa 4.5% per year coming out of serial or otherwise lousy recessions, settling into a long-run average of 3.3%.
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