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...almost 300% on his investment. Tricia received $65,000 as her share, and paid capital gains taxes of $11,617. The White House statement was aimed at refuting published reports that Tricia had avoided paying her share of the tax on the sale by allowing her father to offset the entire gain against the large deductions that he has claimed on recent returns...
This gives outside students the opportunity to study an area of special interest or under a particular professor, Bok said, and "might offset the imbalance and make it unnecessary to inhibit spring leaves...
...production's overall atmosphere, neither tragic nor pastoral, settles somewhere in the netherworld of the mundane. A fairly simple set is not quite bare enough to avoid being distractingly eclectic. Nice touches, such as burning torches in the king's chambers and a flower-bedecked arbor in Bohemia, are offset by haphazard positioning of the settings and the action. The climactic resurrection of Hermione is blunted by clumsy staging. Though occasional flute passages are delightful, the music is generally sloppy...
Perhaps the most encouraging sign in the meet was the infectious team spirit Harvard displayed. Chanting and cheering before and during each event, the squad helped generate a momentum that offset the influence of the partisan Dartmouth crowd...
...election, Molloy would recommend an "innocent look": "You know-short hair parted on the side, blue blazers and gray flannel slacks, loafers and preppy ties. That's the only way someone with his problems can be credible." Should George McGovern rally to yet another national election, Molloy would offset his ultraliberal reputation with strictly conservative garb. "People thought George was unstable in 1972. One day he was Broadway George in his wide tie and snazzy suit; the next, his somber suit and narrower tie said Middle America." In fact, Molloy would urge McGovern to "out-Nixon Nixon" in conservatism...