Word: beare
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ordinarily handled by the Postal Service, we pay the same second-class rates as publications that must be handled individually at every step. Time Inc. does not want to discontinue these services, from which both the post office and our readers benefit, but we feel that we should not bear any further increases in rates. We believe that continued cooperation and improved efficiency are a better solution to the post office's rising costs...
...spent eleven years in Stalin's prisons, camps, and in exile, preparing himself to bear witness to what he had observed...
Disillusionment and dropping out of college are by now so familiar, the experiences bear so much resemblance, that you could probably read this story like the rest. A friend recounts Kimberly describing hers: "Like they made me take this psychology course, the whole shebang, Introduction 1, rats in cages and schmuck cosmic questions. Like this exam I had to take. The first question was 'What is up?', can you believe it, what is up! What is up!" At this point Kimberly broke into a wildfire cackle that became a screech. She continued, "Well, I sat there for three hours...
...rent control? Why do landlords fight against it? The actual demands of the tenants are for decent housing at rents we can afford to pay, and security against the landlords' power to evict. The actual demands of landlords are for cheap housing at whatever rents the market will bear, and complete control over who lives in their properties and who doesn...
...earlier days of the Canadian oil business. His father, now 96, is the oldest living veteran of the North West Mounted Police. Jamieson, 63, was born in Medicine Hat, then a frontier outpost on Alberta's bleak prairie with a population of 5,600. Once he shot a bear that wandered too close to the family domicile. He went to the University of Alberta, but determined to become an engineer, transferred to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. On his return to Depression-struck Alberta in 1931, he took any work that he could find: straightening tracks on the Canadian...