Word: midnighters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hubers have paid a price. Federal income tax laws permit a full $750 deduction for any child born before midnight on Dec. 31. Both Huber babies arrived ahead of schedule-but not quite far enough ahead. Beaten by the clock two years running, the Hubers have now lost $1,500 in tax deductions...
Finally, WHRB presents a Schoenberg and Stravinsky Orgy from noon on January 15 to midnight on January 17. It includes recorded works conducted by the composers, taped interviews, and recordings no longer available or never commercially released. Anyone who can endure this listening session should be a match for any Mem Hall or Burr B session with Mr. Test...
...clear how one calculates what is the right amount of shoplifting for Dublin." He took figures of speech literally and then offered advice on solving problems that only he could discern: how to keep blood from curdling, what to do about Ireland's excessive-burning of midnight...
...their New Year celebrations last week betrayed signs of growing tension: bombings marred holiday shopping in Paris, and a series of strikes closed Michelin and other factories in the provinces. Despite the new malaise, people maintained traditional festivities and gaiety on New Year's Eve and strangers embraced at midnight along the Champs-Elysees, as they have in past years. But beneath all the foie gras, champagne and confetti ran an undercurrent of uncertainty and concern about the 1978 parliamentary elections. Now less than ten weeks away, the impending vote may decisively influence the future course of France...
...CERB), a team of Harvard biologists presses on with what it calls "ground-breaking" experiments using even more obscure strains of E. coli recombinant DNA. At 11:30 on December 31, the head of the research team announces that "a cancer cure may be only fifteen minutes away." At midnight, he turns into a pumpkin...