Word: clerkes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Richard B. Willis, a clerk for the Appellate Tax Board, the agency which officially authorizes tax exemptions, said yesterday "the health plan was judged tax-exempt six months ago and that decision still stands...
...things so ordinary that they might have come from a phrase book: an apple, a comb, a derby hat, a cloud, a birdcage, a street of prim suburban houses, a businessman in a dark topcoat, a stolid nude. There was not much in this list that an average Belgian clerk, around 1935, might not have seen in the course of an average day. But Magritte's combinations were another thing. Magritte's poetry was inconceivable without the banality on, and through, which it worked...
...year-olds applied to the state Health and Social Services Department, Mrs. Ray, who is 5 ft. 9 in. and weighed 210 Ibs., was told she had to lose weight. Her obesity was a health problem, explained the state physician who examined her. Mr. Ray, a shipping and mail clerk at the University of Wisconsin who is 6 ft. 2 in. and weighs 220 Ibs., also had to lose weight, the state social worker said...
Many spectators in the courtroom clustered near the windows to listen to the pro-Johnson demonstrators outside beating drums and chanting "Free Terrance" and "We say no to police brutality and racism." The court clerk swooped down on them, chastising them like wayward children to "Keep away from those windows; the blinds are closed for a reason." The whole event reached a sort of anti-climax with the announcement of a delay in the trial because the defendant had changed his plea from self-defense in both shootings to self-defense in the first and temporary insanity in the second...
...McGraw-Hill's management. In tender offers over the past ten years, the target company has been acquired 85% of the time either by the initial aggressor or by another bidder. Even Lipton, who with his pale, bland face and dark shapeless suits looks like an ambitious bank clerk, admits: "Cash offers are rarely defeated." Two years ago, he fended off Congoleum Corp.'s cash offer for Universal Leaf Tobacco. Says a Wall Street merger and acquisition specialist: "Marty tied Congoleum up for over eight months in the courts, and it got mauled so badly that it finally...