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Word: offerred (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Flea markets are flourishing partly because they seldom charge taxes. Barter clubs are also springing up fast, particularly in the West. The clubs offer swap deals on a vast array of goods and issue checks" for services. A gynecologist, for example, may cash his "check" with a mortician. The members of the clubs claim that their transactions do not represent sales and thus are not subject to taxes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Take Cash and Skip the Tax | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

Student government at Harvard consists of a 95-member student assembly and several student-faculty advisory committees. Both have little power, but nonetheless offer an opportunity for students to immerse themselves in parliamentary debate and the bureaucratic decision-making of the University...

Author: By J.wyatt Emmerich, | Title: Alphabet Soup for Junior Politicians | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

Room 13: peer counseling. When your roommate goes berserk and your proctor has interview in Paducah, this counseling service, open in Stoughton North's basement from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m., will bail you out and probably offer good advice and/or good cookies. You can also call even if your life isn't falling apart, since these students are used to questions on papers and trivia of all sorts. Interviews for Room 13 are held in the spring...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: Sign Up, Please | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

...Crimson: the University daily. A lot of Harvard people are critical of the Crimson, but it does offer most students their best opportunity for daily reporting and writing...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: Sign Up, Please | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

...latest film, The Wanderers, a campy teen-age gang movie in which her boyfriend is a shaven-headed, 6-ft. 6-in., 425-lb. tough named Terror. One scene required her to climb a high fence, and she notes, with satisfaction, that she rejected the director's offer of a double. She has a daredevil's face, marked by a scar that runs from the bridge of her once broken nose, across her right eyelid and down nearly to her cheekbone ?the result of too many falls in playgrounds. Not long ago, she finished filming Orphan Train...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood's Whiz Kids | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

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