Word: joining
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...That means the sailor can't even read a warning sign on a ship's boiler room." One reason for low levels: creation of the all-volunteer military has removed the threat of being drafted into the Army, which was for years an incentive for youths to join the Navy. This means a growing number of the Navy's recruits are young men seeking cheap vocational training or an escape from some social predicament. Only one out of 60 new sailors, according to a training officer at Great Lakes, gives "serving my country" as his reason...
...market value. Typical of homes in some deteriorating neighborhoods is Diane Roberts' three-story wooden frame house in Dorchester. Its market value is only $17,500, yet she is paying $1,472 a year in taxes. These rates have moved some 12,000 Massachusetts homeowners to join a mostly blue-collar group called "Fair Share." It aims to get residential property taxed at lower levels than commercial and industrial sites and to enact a "circuit breaker" law to rebate up to $500 of any property taxes that exceed 8% of the payer's taxable income...
...little guy is still highly cautious. Small investors are sitting anxiously on their cash until it becomes clearer that Wall Street's buying panic is more than just a flash. But this has done nothing to stem the three-week-old rally as foreign investors continue to join large U.S. institutions in leaping on the bull...
Currier House Fishbowl is the setting fog the Currier Concerto Concert on Sunday, May 7. Pianist Richard Kogan, soprano' Tamara Mitchel, and violinist Stephen Chan join in a recital of Grieg, Wagner and Bach, conducted by Louis Karchin, at 8:30 pm. These are all experienced and refined performers, so it's worth the $1 payable at the door. Rounding out the week in a big and noisy way, the traditional Open Reading of the 1812 Overture by Tchaikowsky takes place also on Sunday with rehearsal at 1:30 and a performance at 3 pm. All musicians--bring your...
...Indian maidens and frontier moonlight enlivened his novels René and Atala and gave many Europeans new notions of the New World. The fantastic journey ended one night in a backwoods millhouse, where the fire illuminated an old newspaper headline: FLIGHT OF THE KING. Chateaubriand raced to Europe to join the army of the émigré princes. But the cause was hopeless, and he fled in exile to England. There he will languish until Volume...