Word: half
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...Vladimir Nabokov. A long, lyric fairy tale about time, memory and the 83-year-long love affair of a half-sister and a halfbrother, by the finest living writer of English fiction...
...holders of masters degrees in business administration who start at a minimum of $12,500 [June 13] may be glad to work for half of that 20 years from now, if the experience of their elders is any criterion. The crime of American business is that it pays more for a 25-year-old than for a 45-year-old. In fact, not one blue-chip company will even hire anyone over...
What gave Nixon his confidence was the decision by the House Ways and Means Committee to report out the bill exactly as he had requested-extending the surtax at its present 10% rate for six months and continuing it for another half-year at 5%. The bill also eliminates the 7% tax credit for business investment. The committee vote of 16 to 9 was the result of prodding by Chairman Wilbur Mills, a Democrat, some nudging by John Byrnes, the ranking Republican, and a last-minute thrust by the President himself. Nixon sent Treasury Secretary David Kennedy and Paul McCracken...
...recent years have been a morning rendezvous for two unlikely figures. One was a watchful policeman cradling an automatic rifle. The other was Assembly President Jacques Pierre Michel Chaban-Delmas, 54, togged in a track suit. Under the eyes of his security guard, Chaban-Delmas would jog determinedly for half an hour, then do 90 minutes of Swedish exercises in the Hôtel de Lassay, the official residence that the Assembly leader occupied with his second wife, Marie-Antoinette. Then it was off-literally on the run-for Palais-Bourbon and the ornate chair he has occupied...
...pleasures of lovemaking, Woiwode begins softly terrorizing paradise. Ghostly presences appear progressively more foreboding: the stuffed animals on the wall, the mice in the piano, night tappings at the window, dead birds, the smell of carrion. Above all, there are intruding memories: her dead parents, his live ones; the half-forgotten other lovers...