Word: assets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...great asset not only to law students who wanted to use their degrees to work in the public interest, but to large numbers of underrepresented people and public causes around the country. Over my three years at the Law School I attended many seminars organized by the public interest placement department. I probably never would have heard of D.N.A. if it were not for Ron; I certainly would not have managed to find the funding for the project I wanted to pursue here if Ron had not been at Harvard...
...final point; as a matter of basic knowledge, the U.S. does not support Israel solely because it is a democracy or a Jewish state. Israel is a stategic asset of unprecedented proportions. I can provide Larew with military and economic data that will prove this beyond a doubt. Egypt receives nearly the same amount of U.S. foreign aid as Israel, though it shows no signs of any sort of democracy. The administration is currently sending legislation through Congress that will permit the sale of M-1 tanks to Saudi Arabia. Remember, the U.S. granted Iran most-favored nation status under...
...million and transferred ownership to the Sydney branch of Chemical Bank. Chemical then leased it back to Bond. Why this maneuver? Because, says a bank source who analyzed the lease after it was issued, Bond had found a tax loophole. Under Australian tax law, you could lease any asset -- say, a tractor -- from its owner and get a tax deduction for all payments of principal and interest, as long as you had no right to the asset at the end of the term. (The law, needless to say, was framed to help undercapitalized businesses that cannot afford new tractors...
Meet Me in St. Louis lacks the main asset of the 1944 film, Judy Garland, while shouldering its burden, the wan, uneventful plot. It seeks not only happy endings but also happy beginnings, happy middles, happy everything in between. Yet its charms include six songs from the film plus eleven more from the same team, Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane; a Disneyesque confection of Victorian houses; ice skating on a real-looking pond; a trolley that moves; and a lighted-up 1904 World's Fair...
...There are bound to be some mistakes," Young predicted Tuesday afternoon. "It will be a real big asset if we can put together a solid team defense...