As more of these special preferences have been added to the tax code, more decision-making in our economy is tax-motivated rather than economically efficient.
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Depending on which deductions are in fact eliminated, certain industries may benefit from those preferences more than others.
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They've had flight attendants tell them that other passengers' snack preferences were more important than Skylar's safety.
Now, each time a customer downloads an application, you learn a little more about her brand preferences, leisure interests or professional leanings.
As a result, maintaining the tax share paid by the rich requires trimming their tax preferences much more than those of other households.
And too many poor countries still care more about winning special preferences from rich ones than the benefits of opening their own markets.
Mr. Weintraub recommends targeting Facebook users based on various interests including but not limited to media consumption habits, professional roles, cultural preferences and more.
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Reaching today's teens means meandering through more individual tastes and preferences.
To some extent the national rise in home prices is due to both technology and preferences driving more people to want to live in high rent areas like the Northeast Corridor.
Specifically, with a single ID, it makes it easier for us to identify player preferences, push them offers that are more catered to their experience, to understand their preferences and gameplay trends, and being able to track those over time.
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Today's general tolerance of different sexual preferences may owe more than we realized to preposterous outfits, hair glitter and catchy three-chord tunes.
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In other words, people who had substantive discussions with their doctor about their end-of-life preferences were far more likely to die at peace and in control of their situation, and to spare their family anguish.
Nearly six in 10 Medicare beneficiaries nationally could face higher premiums for Medicare benefits, assuming current plan preferences, including more than half of beneficiaries enrolled in traditional Medicare and almost nine in 10 Medicare Advantage enrollees.
If Congress and the governments of other nations were willing to have tariff preferences that covered more than apparel, Haiti could experience steady growth that would rival other developing nations and put it on a path to success.
If a candidate has won more than 50% of first preferences they are elected.
Since the 1990s, three states have passed referendums barring racial preferences, and four more may do so in November.
This all suggests that enhancement technologies will be adopted much more frequently than considering our own preferences for enhancement would predict.
Others point out that registration figures for the University of California as a whole, despite the ban on preferences, show 50 more black freshmen this year than last, and 68 more Latinos.
We've got to create an environment where people can get jobs, and the best way to do that is to extend these trade preferences and to have more free trade agreements, not less.
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It was the first year since 1992, when Gallup started tracking these preferences, that wine was more popular.
The second, more complex challenge lies in assessing which preferences should be kept in the interest of national economic health.
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More than 60% of all tax preferences flow to the wealthiest 20% of Americans, with only 3% going to the bottom quintile.
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Over time, expect Groupon to field a more sophisticated, Amazon-like rating engine to learn more about the likes, dislikes and preferences of its customers.
That means that your friends, your friends' friends, and your friends' friends' friends may all affect your eating habits, voting preferences, happiness, and more.
As companies track and monitor more of our online behaviors and buying preferences to provide personalized, targeted offers, they are beginning to walk a fine line between observations that give value to the customer and invading privacy rights.
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It knows agents' incomes, broadband usage, brand preferences for jeans, beer and more.
The Micro 9 is designed more to be set up to your household preferences with a much smaller joystick driven display.
Over the last ten years there has been a sea change in customer preferences and their desire to be more in control.
Sprawl may have its flaws, but pushing these extra people into European cites, with their mesh of residential blocks, contiguous shops and public transport, would probably be more wasteful and even (given Americans' preferences) socially explosive.
Tracking in store purchase behavior will also enable brands with deeper insight of consumer preferences, augment social profiles and build more personal relationships.
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