For his part, Renner told CNN that while he didn't necessarily feel pressure to live up to Damon, he did hold himself to a personal standard of excellence when it came to performing the action work.
However, single filers retained the full personal exemption and standard deduction, unlike married filers.
Over the years, the personal exemption and standard deduction have not kept pace with inflation, so today 70% of the population is subject to income taxes.
With this approach, because standard, long term, market investment returns are so much higher than the implicit returns paid by completely noninvested, pay-as-you-go Social Security, all workers who exercise the personal accounts would receive more in benefits through the personal accounts earning standard long term returns than the Social Security benefits they replace.
As a result, the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardisation (CENELEC) amended its safety standard for personal music players.
In 1993, NTT DoCoMo, Japan's principal mobile-phone carrier, opted for a technical standard called Personal Digital Cellular (PDC), which was incompatible with the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM), the standard adopted by most of the rest of the world.
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However, if some of these athletes break through and become part of the elite group that heads for London, suddenly their new personal best becomes their new standard, and the pressure is on them to continue to perform at that new level.
Sales of chips into standard cellular phones and personal computers, he said, would likely reflect the "flattish" global demand for those products.
In 1960 only 15% of federal income tax returns had a zero tax liability, due mostly to low taxable income, a standard deduction, the personal exemption, the dependent exemption, and the Earned Income Tax Credit (a direct subsidy to people for being poor).
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The EPEAT program was conceived by the US EPA and is based on IEEE 1680 standard for Environmental Assessment of Personal Computer Products.
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That is the point at which gross income begins to exceed the standard deduction and the deduction for the personal exemption.
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The increase in growth made possible by these initiatives also would set the stage for additional growth augmenting policies including reform and simplification of the personal income tax code and restoration of gold as a standard of value for the dollar.
For example, the standard deposit protection schemes which cover your and my personal bank accounts, these are already covered under another scheme.
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But what emerged was a clear improvement of the tax code, with a top statutory personal income rate of 28 percent and the doubling of the standard deduction.
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Paul Breckell, chief executive of Action on Hearing Loss, said the new EU standard is important because increasing numbers of young people listen to music through a personal music player.
In addition, consumers concerned about online privacy may not like the new standard, called New Distribution Capability, since it gives airlines another venue for collecting their personal information.
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