Word: inks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...receiving antenna. The difference between the two frequencies tells the speed accurately (within 2 m.p.h.). (In a group of cars, the meter picks out the one that is going fastest.) At the same time, a graphic recorder sets down the speed over a distance of 150 feet in red ink. The operating officers telephone a description of the speeding car to a highway patrol station just ahead, and the trap is sprung...
...that the Government transfers from one pocket to another (e.g., the $1 billion in interest paid annually on bonds held by its own agencies), and 2) it counts as income the excess of receipts over outlays for Government obligations such as social security. Because of these differences, the red ink is less in the cash budget than in the administrative budget-which is why politicos tend to slur over their deficits in the administrative budget and talk instead about the cash budget...
...many conservatives, such proposals seem to be schemes to replace embarrassing red ink with comforting black by rejiggering the Government's books. But there is much to be said for the Government's operating on a cash budget. It is the cash budget that determines how much the Government must borrow, and hence the cash budget is the best measure of the deflationary or inflationary effects of Government spending...
...wall surfaces of nearly every building (since replastering is expensive and ineffective, janitors simply scratch deeper, change the word to BOOK and leave it as mute evidence of evil confounded). The city has ceased installing hot-air hand dryers in school washrooms (children quickly began filling their nozzles with ink, which blew over the next user...
...agreements made between Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin, there wasn't anything wrong with Chiang being on Formosa. I really didn't know what I was talking about, but . . . I wanted to say something to knock them down." The reactionaries set fire to the lecture hall, poured ink into Chinese laundry baskets, refused to carry Red banners in demonstrations, cussed out their guards. When British Communist Newsman Alan Winnington visited the camp, the P.W.s booed him down and he never came back. Once, the reactionaries ganged up on the handful of progressives in the camp, sent 15 of them...