Word: milles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...guided tour of one such apartment complex, the Feng Cheng workers' residential area, I was introduced to Cheng Wei-ping, a bus dispatcher. Cheng earns 79 yuan a month ($39.50), and his wife earns an identical amount in a nearby cotton mill. Their rent, however, is under 10 yuan per month for bedroom, living room, kitchen alcove and toilet-all unheated. Twenty-five years ago, such accommodations were beyond the reach of anyone but white-collar or professional workers...
PALC then emerged from the quiet, and Harvard bungled into its first encounter with shareholder responsibility. But while the Gulf proxy debate was largely unanticipated by the student population, it heated up rapidly. The first mill-in at University Hall was just about a year ago; the occupation of Mass Hall followed six weeks later...
Michigan law requires that voters periodically renew school taxes, but when the district last year asked them to reap-prove a five-mill property tax and an additional five-mill tax, the voters, including a large number of blacks, balked...
...them to levy millage against themselves for highways or health services-only for schools. It's the only place people can vent their frustrations about taxes." Unless public attitudes change, Detroit schools may lose half of their remaining property tax revenues next year when a 7.5-mill tax comes up for reapproval...
...last fling before adulthood closed in? The jobs Fuller held in early manhood might lead one to think so: machine fitter in a cotton mill. Navy ensign during World War I, managing exports for a meat packer and sales for a truck company. The presidency of the Stockade Building System (1922-27) sounds more like it. Fuller and his father-in-law copatented a tough, light substitute for bricks that eliminated the need for hod carriers and mortars. Holes in the blocks were lined up and cement poured in. Both the brick industry and the unions ganged up against...