Word: drilling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whatever the Rolling Stones had in mind, Gimme Shelter is the universal order of the rich to their tax lawyers. Nearly everyone is aware that some Texas oilmen regularly "drill away" their entire tax indebtedness by charging off the same amount as the cost of new drilling projects and at the same time keeping themselves comfortably afloat on the high tax savings allowed seekers of black gold. Less familiar is the fact that Christmas-tree growers successfully persuaded Congress to write a special provision into the tax law granting capital-gains benefits for their product after the IRS had ruled...
Sophomore Bart Vandissel won by forfeit at 191 lbs., and junior Robert Kristoff became the only junior to win all day, pinning sophomore Scott Drill in the heavyweight, and final, competition...
...drug made her so withdrawn that she would sometimes sit for hours doing nothing. "One day I got panicky," her father said. "I had just said her name softly, and she started sobbing uncontrollably." A battery of tests disclosed that Joanie was perfectly healthy. What she needed was drill in basic reading, not drugs...
Giants. It only seems that way. Wooden's coaching philosophy is, in fact, anything but unreal: "Get the players in the best of condition. Teach them to execute the fundamentals quickly. Drill them to play as a team." Cynics scoff at such talk; talented giants, not playground bromides, they say, account for U.C.L.A.'S success. Wooden is, in fact, currently graced with 6-ft. 11-in. Bill Walton, the best center in college basketball. And before Walton, U.C.L.A. had Lew Alcindor, the 7-ft. 2-in. pivotman who led the Bruins to three national titles, then turned...
...second half coach Bob Hart slowed up the Crimson attack, and the game became almost a drill in basketball fundamentals for the powerful cagers...