A: Yes, our office and desk chairs are designed with ease of assembly in mind. If the sunglasses are polarized, you will see a significant diminishing of the glare. Before we find out how it does this, we’ll take a look at the history of the IRS to see how this once unnecessary agency ballooned in scope and importance in a relatively short time. Or would you prefer that the agent host an open house each month if no buyers have come to see it? Unfortunately, if you don’t have it in writing, you’ll have to sweat it out while the house languishes on the market for the duration of the contract. A decade later, the cofounder Jay Chiat had a creative revelation, supposedly while skiing at Telluride, that had nothing to do with an ad campaign. The promotions department is responsible for designing and implementing an effective, cohesive advertising campaign across several different media platforms, including theatrical movie trailers, newspapers, magazines, television, radio, the Internet and billboards. Movie marketing is the art and science of convincing consumers to buy movie tickets.

That’s because it costs a tremendous amount to make a major studio movie. Every major Hollywood studio and movie distribution company has an internal department devoted to promotion. Major studio releases are clustered during the summer, Christmas and long holiday weekends like Thanksgiving, Memorial Day and Labor Day. A spot in the kitchen often turns into an ad hoc space to work in, after all who doesn’t get drawn there at one point or another throughout the day? There is no clear answer. Arthur P. Smith, a physicist who has written about solar power from space for the American Physical Society (PDF), said that interest in beaming solar power from satellites has waxed and waned since it was first proposed more than 30 years ago. A film adaptation of Contact, starring Jodie Foster, was released in 1997. Without spoiling the film, for those yet to view it, Dr. Ellie Arroway (Jodie Foster), after years of searching for “the truth” in radio astronomy, finds conclusive radio astronomical proof of intelligent aliens, who have been receiving our first radio and television broadcasts since the early twentieth century.

To pay for this war, President Abraham Lincoln pushed the nation’s first income tax, along with high excise taxes, which Congress passed in 1861. Although modest by current standards, the 3 and 5 percent income tax on people with over $800 and $10,000 in annual income, respectively, meant an enormous increase in tax revenue. Now, the IRS pulls in trillions of dollars in revenue for the federal government each year and fights crime on the side, helping to attain convictions for notorious gangsters, among others. Internal Revenue Service (IRS), isn’t exactly the nation’s most popular organization. The IRS doesn’t have the cleanest history: It’s been embroiled with corruption, undergone multiple reforms and still faces problems and controversy. When April rolls around and it’s time to pay up, it’s easy to imagine the IRS as a soulless agency that is out to suck you dry of your hard-earned income. For decades, Americans had to pay taxes on various domestic products (excise taxes), imports (custom taxes) and exports (tariffs), but didn’t have to pay any portion of their incomes to the federal government. Yet, even Americans recognized that a government would find it difficult to survive without them.

All the apps allow you to share the currently open document, and apps on some platforms also let you share files from the file list, even if they are not currently open. OpenOffice can open Works files. If the agent holds an open house, how should she advertise it? Once the contract is up, you can look for a new agent. If your contract spells out the expectations for showings and advertising, and the agent doesn’t come through, you can sever the contract and find another agent. If a real estate agent isn’t meeting your expectations, it’s important for you to have spelled out those expectations very specifically in the contract with the agent. You’ve hired a real estate agent, and you’re well into the selling process, but things aren’t going well. Chief executive, Center for Litigation and Consumer Real Estate Education. Some years later in 1895, Congress tried to pass an income tax again. Clamor to change this provision eventually won out, and in 1913, Congress passed the 16th Amendment, which says that Congress has the power to lay and collect taxes. However, it’s good to keep in mind that Congress actually creates and enacts tax code (and extremely complicated tax code at that).