Word: dues
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...passing of the American era. Yet Taiwan has demonstrated a robust self-reliance during the past year, and its relationship with Washington has changed far more in form than in substance. Though the formal U.S. presence is gone and its last legal vestige, the Mutual Defense Treaty, is due to expire next week, other links are thicker than ever. "Both sides," says an American resident in Taiwan, "are playing the new game to the hilt...
Charles L. Allen, folksy pulpit patriarch of Houston's First United Methodist Church, thinks that seminarians' lack of interest in preaching was largely due to the emphasis on social impact encouraged by Martin Luther King Jr. The irony is that King, "one of the greatest pulpit men of all time," moved his countrymen as much with words as with deeds. "A lot of younger preachers at the time didn't see that," says Allen...
...survive; his six previous novels, far less sensational, deserve more readers than they have received, and his latest may be his best. No one now writing has achieved quite the same equipoise between malaise and morality, ideas and emotions. In this tale of human imperfectibility, the devil gets his due and not a scintilla more. - Paul Gray
...known that she had been unable to obtain an accurate fix on school finances, despite round-the-clock investigation by a high-priced firm of accountants. Even so, depressing details began to dribble out: to meet expenses, administrators had failed to set aside $15.9 million in federal withholding taxes due the Federal Government and $5.3 million in teachers' pension funds and annuities. "This money belonged to our employees," said Mrs. Rohter, "and the board members are extremely concerned...
...affection in dire adversity and the taxing journey to the root core of one's identity. The play at Manhattan's New Apollo Theater achieves these ends, thanks in part to an arresting performance by Film Actor Gere (Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Yanks). Even greater thanks are due David Dukes for his extraordinarily intuitive portrayal of Horst, a man rounded up by the state for having signed a petition demanding rights for "queers." To put this in proper historical perspective, some of the earliest Nazi party stalwarts were distinctly "bent." On the "Night of the Long Knives," June...