Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...adventures of the Ibis while in the hands of its abductors are reportedly full of intrigue. It is rumored that the Lampoon will soon publish a book-length account of them...
This information might make working notes for a satisfactory account of the academic year. That it is no such account is indicated most clearly by the first three paragraphs of the article, which...
...taxable property in Pennsylvania, 17% in Maryland, 18% in New Jersey. In other areas, churches own relatively little of total tax-exempt property; in Baltimore, for example, where $528 million worth of property is taxexempt, only $80 million worth is owned by churches (schools and hospitals account for much of the rest). Even so, few dispute the fact that church property is widely undervalued...
...compact field. Though Romney is now Governor of Michigan, AMC is still selling Romney-selected compacts because of the two-year lead time needed to produce new models. Meanwhile, the auto-buying public's taste has strongly swung back to bigger, flashier and more luxurious cars. Compacts now account for only 18% of auto sales, and AMC is stranded without the right variety of cars for today's prospering auto market...
Moravia's pattern is distinctive but invariable: a Roman lowlife, male, gives a fourth-drink, first-person account of some minor downfall, failing to see its subtleties and thereby allowing the reader a faint, wry smile. The only thing wrong with the formula is that it does not require much space, and the reader is given only four or five pages between wry smiles. If the book is used as night-table literature, even the weariest citizen cannot achieve unconsciousness without meeting, say, the indignant wife of Federico the upright thief, the witless teen-ager who lives to dance...