Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into charges that some of the 52 pipelines owned by 36 major oil companies, which signed a 1941 consent decree, compete illegally against independent oil companies that pay to use pipelines. Sample complaint: that pipelines pad their rate base to pay excessive dividends to their owners which in effect amount to rebates on carrying the owners...
...market) in a single year. Conservatives who fall behind, as General Motors learned in 1957, can see profit figures change from $640 million to $602 million (and tumble from 51.4% to 45.5% of the market). And the car that can combine just the right amount of change with the continuity that preserves used-car values can build up year after year until finally it leads them...
...listing names: "'Dean?' I yelled across the party--which included Angel Luz Garcia, the poet; Walter Evans; Victor Villanueva, the Veneauelan poet; Jinny Jones, a former love of mine;...(etc.)... and innumerable others--'Come over here, man.'" The lack of concreteness keeps the book sexless, despite the incredible amount of sleeping around. Kerouac has a long way to go if he really wants to imitate Henry Miller...
Although the rate of acceptance averaged 70 per cent for the entire nation, only 50 per cent of the eligible candidates from the Pacific Coast accepted. Many of those rejecting Harvard in favor of Western colleges cited the "high cost of transportation and the low amount of expense money allowed under scholarships especially for travel costs...
...decreasing the number of papers written during the freshman year, thus making more time available for the adjustment to college work. The main advantage remains, however, that submitting the longer, more carefully done, more meaningful paper for stylistic comment will help the student's writing more than any amount of comment on the too-often hastily written and unmeaningful papers now required of freshmen...