Word: loadings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...moment, President Nixon has not formally proposed VAT because he is aware that any new tax would meet hard opposition from Congress and from voters, who are already up in arms over the tax load. Treasury Secretary John Connally has said that the Administration has no plans to recommend any new taxes this year. Yet VAT has been under serious consideration for months, and White House aides have been floating the idea in what amounts to a test-marketing program among Congressmen and state and local officials. The possibility that a form of VAT will be imposed at some future...
...WELL THEY load me and Mark Sibley and Jack Chick--Terry Chick's brother, and somebody else, God I forget. And then they get Chick...
...life -"not a very Jewish mother," according to one friend. In Clifford's first and largely autobiographical novel, On a Darkling Plain, a main character, Mike Donnenfeld, muses: "He carried the burden of being an only child and had no idea of how to lighten the load except by creating this illusion of success...
...Pittsburgh Symphony's William Steinberg took on the Boston post for a three-year period, in 1969, succeeding Erich Leinsdorf, but had to curtail his activities almost immediately because of ill health. With Pittsburgh's schedule expanding, and because of the heavy dual load, Steinberg, 72, decided early on not to return to Boston next year...
...Exception and the Rule is as concise and bitter as any of his sermons can be, Karl Langmann, investor-speculator-merchant, sets out across the Jahi desert with a load of unidentified but valuable goods, accompanied by a guide, a coolie, and a riding crop. His competitors are always right behind him; in trying to keep ahead he overworks both his men, eventually fires (unjustly) his guide, and shoots (intentionally) his coolie. Langmann's philosophy, we are told repeatedly, is "sick men die, but strong men fight." Langmann's world is one made for fighters, one where "who has good...