Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Other critics who are mainly concerned with the level of debt incurred in the LBO process have suggested that the tax deductibility be shifted towards cash expenditures rather than debt, thus encouraging LBO initiators to use money instead of loans...
Dimond said that the vast number of recent improvements and expan- sions in the subway system justified theincrease. Since 1981, the MBTA has spent $2.5billion modernizing its equipment and repairingtracks. In addition, ridership has increased 20percent to its current level of 650,000 passengersdaily...
...West, the Ayatollah's terrorist threats have generated virtually universal outrage. The twelve nations of the European Community have severed high-level diplomatic ties with Iran and have warned that economic sanctions may follow if Rushdie is harmed. However, President Bush issued only a weak statement condemning Khomeini at a press conference more than a week after the controversy began. And authors, librarians and scholars have only recently voiced their solidarity with Rushdie, who has gone into hiding...
...state Department of Environmental Quality Engineering (DEQE) and the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA) declared a water emergency on February 16. Currently, the Quabbin reservoir is at 68 percent capacity, the lowest level in 15 years...
...talk sponsored by Harvard-Radcliffe Young Democrats last night, State Sen. Michael J. Barrett '70 (D-Cambridge) said that one of the primary health hazards is the high level of sodium in city water, caused by the runoff of salt-filled drainage from neighboring highways. City water currently contains 43 milligrams of sodium per liter, more than double the state-set limit...