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...these alarming odds was to deprive the enemy of his natural camouflage with a massive application of herbicides. They had innocuous names like Agent White, Agent Purple and, the most widely used, Agent Orange, which could transform lush landscapes into vast mangy hides. Many U.S. service members probably owe their lives to the use of Agent Orange. For others it may have been only a temporary reprieve. Lieut. Zumwalt survived his tour without visible harm. He returned home in 1970 to marry Kathy Counselman of Falls Church, Va., go to law school and set up practice in Fayetteville...
...When you get to be my age, you want to do things you thoroughly enjoy, and I feel--I know this sounds trite, but in my case it's true--that I owe Harvard and Exeter a great deal...
...below the poverty line will be freed from paying any income tax at all, doing away with a pernicious unintended consequence of the current law: for the past several years the poor have been sending a growing share of their meager pay to Washington. About 80% of taxpayers will owe less; though many of the reductions will be small, they add up to big money. Collectively, individuals ! over the next five years will keep in their wallets $121.7 billion that they would have to hand over to the Internal Revenue Service under present...
...cook, and her father is disabled), there seemed no possibility that Carla could go on to a top college after graduation. In February, however, the Stoughs heard that she had qualified for special admission to selective Bard College in Annandale-on- Hudson, N.Y. Under the Bard plan, Carla will owe only the modest annual sum of $3,742, which she would have paid at her local state university in Shippensburg, instead of Bard's normal $14,550. Furthermore, Bard will match any additional financial aid Shippensburg might have offered, so that Carla's actual costs when she starts school...
...biggest draw, students say, is an over-whelming obligation to learn about the Ukrainian heritage and perpetuate it. Many students say they believe they owe that to their Ukrainian ancestors who endured tremendous oppression throughout the last three centuries...