Word: owings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Assault ships). After the company fell 18 months behind in construction, the Navy slashed the order from nine ships to five. Navy brass caused some of the delay and increased costs by ordering changes in the design. As a result, under the terms of its agreement, the Navy may owe more for the five LHAS it will get than it had planned to spend for all nine. The two parties are currently renegotiating the contract...
...usual, Harvard is pointing the way for other universities. Oberlin and several other major institutions are already studying the Harvard Plan for possible implementation. Hard-pressed colleges and harried parents throughout the country may owe Harvard a debt of graditude. But it seems likely that by the time the Class of '76 graduates some four years hence, they will owe Harvard a good deal more...
...They form a kind of political royalty. They think they never can get licked. All the wise guys and all the smart money lined up with Muskie. Now McGovern, he's gone around on a pretty short bankroll. If he can put this thing together, who will he owe? Who'd have ever figured McGovern? He's set them all on their...
Tracy Albertsen and the Leonard boys represent two of the faces of mental retardation. Children like Tracy owe their affliction to detectable organic imperfections; those like the Leonards suffer from retardation of uncertain origin. Together they constitute a wrenching problem for all segments of society. According to the President's Committee on Mental Retardation, 3% of the population under the age of 65 -close to 6,000,000 Americans-suffer some degree of retardation. Every five minutes in the U.S. a child is born who will eventually be classified as retarded...
...elaboration. It stated that, although for accounting reasons no provision for income taxes had to be reported to stockholders, U.S. Steel had indeed paid some federal income tax in 1971. These payments may have involved using tax credits built up in prior years, and the company may still owe deferred taxes on its 1971 income. Corporations are not required to report such arrangements, and U.S. Steel declined to expand on its claim...