Word: incurs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Beginning in July, Vermont youths will be able at 18 to vote in all elections, buy any alcoholic beverage, marry without parental consent, sign legal contracts, incur debts (and be held accountable for them), inherit estates and be treated as adults by the courts. All these privileges were hitherto reserved for those who had reached the age of 21. The bill was introduced by Vermont's youngest legislator, 24-year-old Representative Kenneth Parker (who in the last election defeated a man 50 years older), and was signed into law by the nation's oldest Governor, Deane...
...reported that Coop personnel were asked to tone down their normal style of aggressively affable sales assistance, so that the Coop would not incur an excessive loss. A spot check revealed this to be the case...
This is not a comedy that will incur the enthusiasm of devotees of Aristophanes, Molière, or even Neil Simon. To laugh at How the Other Half Loves is a little like making a midnight raid on the refrigerator, half ashamed but sneakingly satisfied...
...whom some 30,000 have applied for exit visas to Israel. Since the Soviet Union denies its citizens the right to emigrate, the assumption has been that the Kremlin could not sanction a Jewish exodus without arousing other dissatisfied minority nationalities. Nonetheless, rather than openly crush the Jews and incur bad publicity abroad, the Soviets apparently have decided to take the risk. From a mere handful, the number of Jews allowed to leave Russia has now grown...
Perhaps the most clear-cut, if not most significant factor in the game, was Harvard's ability to stay away from the penalty box. Harvard did not incur one penalty against the Terriers, preventing B.U. from mounting its power play, the best in the East...