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Glamorous Celebrity Deaths and Minimal Taxes in 2010 :: Women on.

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These estates were set to owe no taxes because tax law passed by the Bush Administration in 2001 and 2003 gradually increased the estate tax exemption over ten years while lowering the estate tax rate, and allowed for the estate tax to disappear completely in 2010. billion estate.

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More of Us Are Working in Big Bureaucratic Organizations than Ever Before

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in 2001 to 16% in 2015. Who else is going to meet all those new compliance requirements around diversity, risk mitigation and sustainability? Between 1983 and 2014, the number of managers, supervisors and support staff in the U.S. workforce grew by 90%, while employment in other occupations grew by less than 40%.

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Five House Rules for Managing Risky Behavior

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billion in net income during the five years prior to its bankruptcy in 2001, while only $114 million in net cash was generated (or a mere 3% of reported income). a survey indicated that fewer than 60% of the Secret Service personnel said they would report ethical misconduct. That meant Enron was able to report $3.3

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The Bush cuts also gradually raised the estate exemption and lowered the estate tax from 2001 until 2010, when the estate tax disappeared for that year only. Barring any Congressional action to change this law, taxes were set to revert back to their pre-2001 rates on January 1, 2011.