There are some exceptions to these rates. A taxpayer is not able to use the business standard mileage rate for a vehicle after claiming accelerated depreciation on that vehicle. The standard rate is also not applicable to fleet owners.
November 19, 2016. Ruth Gruber, an American journalist who stumbled into one of the great rescue stories of the Holocaust when the U.S. government appointed her to escort nearly 1,000 Jews across U-boat infested waters to the shores of the United States, died Nov. 17 at her home in Manhattan. She was 105.
From an early age, Ruth Fulton Benedict was an acute questioner of the world around her. In an early journal, the young Ruth wrote: The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers.n 1921, at the age of 34, Benedict entered Columbia University, where she earned her PhD in anthropology studying mainly under Franz Boas, who arranged for the transfer of her work at the New School, so that barely more than her dissertation was necessary for her degree.