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Price supports prop up the farmer and tax write-offs cushion the new businessman. Property owners are reimbursed for wartime losses sustained at the hands of either the Nazis or the Allies, and there are special payments for war widows as well as to refugees from East Germany. "If you were a nursing mother who had fled from the East, lost your fortune and your husband in the war, and had broken your leg," says one government official, "why, you'd be a millionaire...
...Cincy was able to pull away easily to a 29-21 halftime bulge. Loyola was singularly unimpressive, as the Bearcats were able to force the game into their irritating but effective slow, deliberate style of play. With 11:45 to play, Cincinnati was sitting on a safe 15-point cushion...
...unfavorable business climate" in Latin America. Profits are low, risks high. The U.S., continued Grace, should adopt a "carrot-and-stick approach." with grants and loans to encourage Latin Americans to enact laws more hospitable to private investment. The committee recommended greater tax incentives and deductions as a cushion against heavy losses. Even then, concluded Grace, "it is unlikely that normal conditions attractive to foreign capital can be created for a number of years...
Throughout the contest, the varsity used a tight zone defense to keep Columbia off balance and took advantage of every Lion mistake (there were many) to cushion the Crimson lead...
...railroad rights-of-way that would provide line-haul running speeds of 100-150 m.p.h.; new railroad rights-of-way or "tubes" to provide speeds of perhaps 200 m.p.h.; electronically controlled auto or bus highway systems; "ground and surface effects machines'"-that is, vehicles that ride on a cushion of air over land or water; improvement of helicopter services and development of VTOL aircraft (vertical take-off-and-landing craft"); and improvement of high-speed hydrofoil boats...