Word: ledger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other side of the ledger the Crimson's defensive team will rely heavily on experience in the linebacking slots and in the secondary. All-Ivy Rick Kurzweil and Bill Collatos will hold down the fort for a sophomore-studded front five. Adjuster George Newhouse and safeties Fran Cronin and Jon Judge will provide the deep support...
Britain's economic distress has been aggravated by lavish increases in public spending, which has risen from 44.2% of the G.N.P. in 1963 to an estimated 58.4% this year. Since tax revenues have not kept pace with this upsurge and Britain's balance of payments ledger has been almost constantly in the red, much of the difference between income and outgo has been made up indirectly by borrowing from abroad...
...brighter side of the ledger, some cities have managed to avoid trouble. Pittsburgh Mayor Pete Flaherty has pared the city's work force from 7,200 to 5,400 in five years, partly through attrition. St. Louis' 13,000 employees wisely decided to help the city out of its pinch by not pushing for wage increases this year...
Notes on the State of Virginia, a response to a series of questions posed by the secretary of the French legation in Philadelphia, is a mixture of guidebook, history, scientific ledger, philosophical treatise, vindication of American nationalism and casual introduction to Jefferson's opinions on practically everything. The Notes and the 79 letters included here are the most compelling part of the Viking collection...
...slogan of their own: "Thirty years of liberty-some good, some not so good-but all of them in liberty." Party Leader Fanfani made 200 campaign appearances, pledging his party's protection for "the Italian democratic system against ambushes of any sort." He regularly reviewed the ledger of Communist duplicity: "Twenty years ago in Hungary, seven years ago in Czechoslovakia, just three months ago in Portugal-a thousand promises on arrival, and then a totalitarian system...