Word: ledger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from his wife. In all probability these men have come to kill him and his whole family. Suddenly, the doorbell rings--it is Gloria, the next-door neighbor, who has run out of coffee. The accountant, who has run out of time, gives her instead his son, and a ledger. Gloria goes back to her apartment with the boy, and the Mob comes and murders the accountant, his wife, and his daughter...
...Charles Walter Arden Botts's four field goals and strong scrum play--defeated the scrappy Crusaders, 12-3, at the Business School rugby field. The victory ups the club's record to 2-0, and extends its fall season winning streak (including last season's perfect 9-0 ledger...
While the bureaucrats went back to their ledger books to rewrite their requests, members of the Appropriations Committee sat on their hands. Until the budget ceiling issue is resolved, Carter's request for about $14 million to register men will sit on a Congressional shelf...
...price increase. The arms trade has become an essential part of our export business, without which the U.S. would face a serious balance of trade deficit and a severe economic slump in 1980. While the OPEC price increase adds a few billion dollars to the import side of the ledger, the grain embargo reduces export revenue by another few billion dollars, adding to an already large ($30 billion) annual shortfall. Now the nations of the world may not want American steel, American television sets, or American cars, but they love our fighter planes...
...cavernous "room," as the main trading hall of Lloyd's of London is called, a clerk still enters (with a quill pen) the names of newly sunk vessels in an upright ledger that, in past years, has held the names of the Titanic and the Lusitania. Above hangs the Lutine bell, salvaged from a Lloyd's-insured British frigate, which tolls to announce a maritime loss or other disaster. That bell should perhaps now be pealing for the venerable insurance institution itself...