Word: mealing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...full scholarship--$6000 a year is a little steep--and that means washing dishes in the Union as a part-time job, something which he says he would have once found "degrading." While expressing no anger at Americans, he notes evenly that "what people throw away in a meal here a whole Bengali family could survive on for a week." He says he feels bad that he doesn't really identify with his people and their traditions and that being in America has done this to him--he wants to learn, and regrets that he has been into the Bengali...
...hardships have been worth it, the couples testify "We're closer knit and healthier than we would be in a city," says Moore. The food at the evening meal is usually from the family garden-they eat meat only about twice a month. Says Swenson "I wanted to be economically independent of the 40-hour week. I wanted out of the pollution and overcrowding. I found the wilderness aspect of northern Maine just what I was searching...
...chances of survival for a proposal to exempt college students from the 8 per cent meal tax appear almost non-existent, State Rep. Vincent J. Piro, the chairman of the Taxation Committee of the Massachussetts State Legislature, said yesterday...
...exemption is an amendment to a larger proposal to cut all meal taxes from 8 to 5 per cent. If passed, the amendment will eliminate the $95 surcharge which Harvard students will pay on pay on next year's term bills...
Piro said the committee might consider an amendment that would lower all meal taxes including those paid by students to 5 per cent. If this plan were implemented, students would only have to pay a surcharge of about...