Word: meres
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...enthusiastic about the idea, and when the Internal Revenue Service offered the option last year it put the checkoff box on a form separate from the regular 1040 form; worse, it hardly publicized the option at all. The result: only 3.1% of taxpayers checked off the box, and a mere $3,993,000 was collected...
...material had been surrendered "voluntarily." Said Jaworski: "Any idea that this material has been spoon-fed to me is in error. I have had to go after it. I have had to designate precisely what I wanted." It is, of course, the nature of specific evidence, rather than mere quantity of documents, that is significant to a prosecutor...
...Middle East, Africa, Asia and Latin America are asserting ownership rights to more and more of the petroleum pumped out by the "seven sisters" of world oil: Exxon, Royal Dutch/Shell, Texaco, Mobil, Gulf, Standard of California and British Petroleum. By the 1980s, the international oil companies could become mere contractors in much of the world, pumping oil that host-country governments will own and selling exactly as much as those governments direct, to the customers and at the prices the governments select...
...Harvard's tremendous interest in the DeFunis case probably owes more to a fear for the interests of those groups to which Harvard has a longer and certainly more deeply-rooted committment. Alumni son, athletic, prep school and other such groups which Harvard actively recruits for other than mere scholarly reasons all could be affected by a sweeping court ruling doing away with all but meritocratic considerations...
...gathering power into his own hands, Suharto temporarily resolved several of his political woes. His disbanding of the Aspri was a crowd-pleasing response to student protests that his aides were corrupt. But the villains of Suharto's wayang are not mere puppets. Each of the four wily generals is potentially a powerful political figure. They may now try to write a different scenario for the next Indonesian puppet show...