Word: pass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...middle-income workers, who often pay more in Social Security than in income taxes. But even that is not all. In theory, employers pay Social Security taxes equal to those levied on their workers. In practice, the public pays the employers' share too, because companies raise prices to pass along the boost. This year's increase may add half a point to the U.S. inflation rate; the bigger rise in 1981 will push prices up much more. Some bosses may also choose to hire fewer workers because the tax raises the cost of each employee. So the increases...
...dissociate themselves from the program. Others wanted to end the grants. After lively debate, the central committee voted in favor of Potter's proposal for a long-term "consultation" over the antiracism program. Apparently left in force is a 1971 central-committee dictum that the W.C.C. does not "pass judgment on those victims of racism who are driven to violence as the only way left to them to redress grievances." Potter declared that most of the dissenters had come from "certain Western countries which are most heavily involved in maintaining the racist systems in southern Africa...
...played alongside Austin, Carr at guard at Notre Dame, but quit the team the year after Austin graduated because he had no one to pass...
...sign of the novel's success is the fact that Birdy's desire never for an instant seems risible or even, after a while, particularly bizarre. Thoughts from the hero ("What I need is a tail") that could easily be howlers pass by with the equilibrium of logic and consistency. Method triumphs over madness. In alternating sections, Al reminisces aloud, as much to pass the time as to get through to his apparently oblivious friend, and then Birdy in turn thinks about his past. These two sets of memories are vectors to the present. The personalities...
With David Burke off for elbowing, St. Lawrence upped the margin to two again with a power play goal of its own. Laskowski stopped two short-handed bids before clearing the puck to Dean Popiel on the right wing. Popiel broke in two-on-one, faked the pass and beat Wade Lau for his second score and the winning tally...