Word: equalize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hoped to encourage businessmen to buy new equipment and hire more workers by offering two alternatives: 1) a company building new facilities or buying new machines could increase its investment tax credit from the current 10% to 12%, or 2) it could simply choose to accept a tax credit equal to 4% of its total contributions to Social Security, thus decreasing slightly the cost of hiring new workers. For example, a company employing 100 workers earning an average of $10,000 a year could have deducted...
Admissions officers attribute the increase in female applicants primarily to the establishment of an equal access policy for women and to improved recruiting resources brought by the merger of the Harvard and Radcliffe Admissions Offices...
...Some-Lenin, Joyce, for instance, go on from the murky obscurity of 1918 Zurich while others stay behind. Is it talent, luck, a combination of the two? Or is it the blind dice shaking in the hands of an angry god, rolling thunder, Jordan and sixes with equal equanimity and an uncaring laugh...
Members of The Haymarket Peoples Fund, an organization promoting equal distribution of political and economic power, met at Phillips Brooks House last night to encourage students to donate money for community projects to aid working class people...
...Harvard's budget managers have gone one step further, and refrain even from spending all of the interest on the endowment. If capital gains are included, the University's endowment produced income equal to 11.8 per cent of its total value last year. But only 5 per cent of the income went to defray Harvard's operating costs. The rest of the interest was reinvested to safeguard Harvard's solvency for centuries to come...