Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with inlaid lighting, and handsome darkwood desks and chairs. There's nothing wrong with a little rank and privilege, and, of course, a job well done entitles the doer to some sort of reward. But as one former worker for HSA said, "Sometimes ` the whole thing smacked of a bunch of little kids playing big business...
...Born Losers are a bunch of lorn boozers, motorcyclists who get their kicks by staging rape-ins and terrorizing towns. Even the police are afraid to touch the little-read riding hoods who swagger around California wearing swastikas and blaring "man," "cool" and "baby" in between crimes. As is only proper in a low-grade western, vigilante justice finally prevails when a rodeo-riding half-breed (Tom Laughlin) hunts them down and makes them cry into their beards...
...mightiest minnow of them all was Debbie Meyer, the baby of the bunch, 5 ft. 6½ in. tall, 111 Ibs., just turned 15-and already the possessor of three world records. Daughter of a Sacramento, Calif., plant manager, Debbie has been splashing around pools ever since she was six months old, and her current training regimen calls for at least 12,000 meters of swimming a day, six days a week. All she had to shoot at last week were her own monthold world records in the 400-meter free style...
Sandy Dennis plays Tyro Schoolmarm Sylvia Barrett and re-creates with considerable grace her abandonment of college-bred tenets and concepts to cope with realities in the concrete jungle. Both antagonistic forces-a bunch of surly, underprivileged kids on one side and a school administration of monolithic obtuseness on the other-abound in stereotypes: the unloved Fat Girl, the sullen boy with a streak of buried brilliance, the love-hungry spinster, the platitude-spinning principal and his vicious, misanthropic assistant...
...avoid paying 48 per cent on its income over $48,000 by forming several subsidiaries, each with a taxable income of less than $25,000. There are other good reasons for forming subsidiaries, such as to limit a corporation's liability, but a single enterprise should not receive a bunch of surtax exemptions just because it is divided into subsidiaries. These exemptions cost the government an estimated $100 million-$200 million a year...