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...amendment permits schools to use prediction tables other than the NCAA recommended 1.6 table if they equal or exceed the NCAA requirement...
Borges speaks of "the advantage of briefness." He sees no need to bore himself with writing an entire book "to develop an idea whose oral demonstration fits into a few minutes." His fictions seldom exceed 10 pages. He calls them "footnotes" to hypothetical books, since he believes in "the certitude that everything has been written." Rediscovery and rearrangement, not "originality," are his objects. In the second Norton lecture Borges assured his audience that the world will never suffer a shortage of metaphors, even though they can all be classified in some ancient, fundamental pattern. As with a kaleidoscope, a limited...
...team's ability to outpass their opponents has been the difference thus far, and improvement continues to exceed all expectations...
...original Jonathan Logan line, established 27 years ago by Father David, leads the junior market with bright styles that sell for as little as $15 and never exceed $30. Fast-changing junior styles represent about 40% of the firm's business. The rest, carrying such labels as R & K, Butte Knit and Amy Adams, are for non-juniors, who are apt to spend more-up to $80 in the Logan line-and expect less radical season-to-season change. The line also includes bathing suits (Rose Marie Reid and Beach Party), blouses (Alice Stuart) and rainwear (Misty Harbor...
...most exasperating tax inequity is the 27.5 per cent oil depletion allowance applied to income from oil and gas property. Designed to compensate landowners for the exhaustion of natural oil deposits in the ground, the allowance originally could not exceed the amount invested. But percentage depletion allowance, begun in 1926, bears no relation to the amount first invested. Instead, the tax-free 27.5 per cent applies to the income from the oil and gas products. Eventual recovery in this manner often goes far beyond the actual investment costs...