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Blind taxpayers are allowed a larger standard deduction than sighted people ($1,050 more for a blind single, $1,700 more for blind married couples).
His success as an administrator rested on two insights that are now commonplace: first, that the academic star system could be used to create departments with high-profile brand names, and second, that the longing of academic couples to live in the same place represents an administrative opportunity, not a headache.
Under this new system, couples would hold smaller reserves of coupons than before, knowing they could borrow more if necessary.
Homosexuality ceased to be grounds for exclusion from the United States in 1991, but since gay and lesbian couples cannot legally marry in this country, there is currently no legal way for them to benefit from family-preference laws.
As a generic set of laws for an extraordinarily diverse group of marriages, marriage law burdens some couples some of the time and benefits most couples most of the time.