Word: allowence
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than 50% of his total income in federal income taxes. Officials of the Nixon Treasury and many reform-minded Congressmen rightly fault that idea as merely papering over today's loopholes. The plan would end none of the questionable favoritism in the present law. Moreover, it would allow the rich to pay something akin to a cheap license fee for the right to go on using loopholes...
...selfdelusion. The viewer can indeed see three moons in the picture, even though he has certainly never seen three moons in a nighttime sky, and so must conclude they exist only in the painter's imagination. By concentrating on the shapes alone, she can allow the fantasy to surface-giving it a name only after she sees...
Learning How. By "full circle" Riklis means that he has fully recovered from the 1963 disaster-heavy losses and plunging stock prices-that almost cost him his empire. The maneuver strengthens his hand against possible attacks by other acquisition artists. It will also allow Rapid-American, which Riklis estimates earned about $10.9 million last year on revenues of $925 million, to report 62% of Glen Alden's earnings. Last year Glen Alden made a $22 million profit (up from $18 million in 1967) on sales of $788 million...
Cetrulo in sabre and Tatrallyay in epee are both on the first All-Ivy team, while Keller, in foil, is on the second. Coach Edo Marion chose these three fencers to represent the Crimson last year but NCAA officials would not allow a freshman team to enter, and Harvard did not compete...
...factual background on each school varies from irrelevant to misleading. Two-thirds of the first page on Penn talks about a new swimming pool. Dartmouth is most famous for its computer (after its team spirit, of course) and secondly famous because "even classrooms are left unlocked after hours to allow extra study space for students who want an entire room, complete with blackboards, chalk, and 20 empty desks, to study in." Only after six pages of computer sketches of Snoopy and praise for the Dartmouth campus--traditional Ivy Covered in rural New England setting--do the authors drop Dartmouth...