The seven members of the committee who made the decision include economists Robert Hall (Stanford), Martin Feldstein (Harvard), Jeffrey Frankel (Harvard) and James Poterba (MIT).
The first comprehensive proposal for a U.S. flat tax came in the 1985 book The Flat Tax, by economists Robert Ernest Hall and Alvin Rabushka.
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Prior to filming The Awakening, Hall read Robert Graves' Goodbye to All That, The Great Silence: 1918-1920 Living in the Shadow of the Great War by Juliet Nicholson and "a lot of war poetry".
In 2010, Nasdaq marked its 20th anniversary in Silicon Valley with a bell-ringing ceremony at San Jose City Hall with Nasdaq CEO Robert Greifeld.
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Everyone involved in this picture seems overqualified, from the writers (Robert Towne, with Beatty) to the cinematographer (Conrad Hall) to the production designer (the late Ferdinando Scarfiotti) to the large, pointlessly high-powered supporting cast (headed by Katharine Hepburn).
Dana's father, Robert Gillespie, recalled that he first met Duncan in a pool hall in Greer, S.C. in the 1960s.
Two new entries have been added this year - the 17th Century gateway to Londesborough Estate in the East Riding of Yorkshire, designed by Robert Hooke, and the 16th Century ruins of Thorpe Salvin Old Hall, Rotherham.
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The paintings, which originally hung at Houghton Hall in Norfolk, were brought together by Britain's first Prime Minister, Robert Walpole in the 1720s.
The initiative has been warmly welcomed by Mike Macnamee, chief executive of Bourn Hall Clinic - based near Cambridge - which was established by IVF pioneers Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards.
The performance hall will give all three surviving Led Zeppelin members - John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant - individual awards.
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