Word: dec
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gigantic birthday bash that will involve millions of Americans, from the largest cities to the tiniest hamlets, and spawn thousands of speeches, parades, pageants, school plays, fairs, exhibitions, TV shows, postage stamps, buttons, T shirts and Jefferson knows what else before the party officially ends on Dec...
HOUSING CREDIT. Aimed at spurring the sluggish housing industry, this provision will subsidize anyone who buys a previously unoccupied house or apartment between March 13 and Dec. 31. The buyer will be allowed to subtract from his 1975 tax bill 5% of the purchase price, up to $2,000. Construction of the house must have begun by last Tuesday. Though this provision may help reduce the backlog of 600,000 unsold new homes and condominiums, it could hinder the sales of older houses. Cost to the Treasury: $600 million...
...reinforce that claim, Douglas is making an unusual number of requests to the court that more cases be heard. A statement that Douglas released through the Supreme Court's press office implied that the paralysis in his left arm resulted from "striking a wall when I fell ill Dec. 31." Chief Justice Warren Burger was so disturbed by that kind of inaccuracy that he ordered quotation marks to be placed on the statement lest the words seem to have the imprimatur of the court...
...Victoria, it has nothing to do with Queen Victoria. She does appear briefly in the person of Wilson's 88-year-old grandmother, Alma Hamilton, who is adorned in a white gown, black sunglasses and a regal red sash. Unlike The Life and Times of Joseph Stalin (TIME, Dec. 31, 1973), which lasted twelve hours and centered on painterly images evolving in glacially slow motion and almost total silence, Queen Victoria consists mainly of verbal anarchy. In a typical scene, characters shoutingly reiterate the following word-sounds contrapuntally: "HAP-HATH-HAP-HAP-HATH...
...from the annual Scholastic Aptitude Tests, which most college admissions offices use to judge applicants. SAT scores have been falling every year since 1962, and the new figures-based on last year's tests taken by 1 million high school students-show that the trend is continuing (TIME, Dec. 31, 1973). Over the past twelve years the average score has dropped from 478 to 440 on the verbal test and from 502 to 478 on the mathematics test. Highest possible score...