Word: persons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mandated by the new law took effect New Year's Day. The real impact for many will be felt later in the year, as Social Security payroll deductions that stopped in 1978 when an employee had earned $17,700 continue until he or she reaches $22,900. That person's total tax goes...
...tanned, he looks ten or twenty years younger than his 72 years. Memories of his varied experiences are precious to him--hence the diaries. "The journals are neither literature nor works of art," he says, "but simply graphic narratives of good years in a good life, traces of one person's presence on earth that otherwise would be erased by time." The journals spur Goodfriend on to greater adventure. "To me, each new year becomes a batch of blank pages provoking and evoking experiences worthy of record. Dull lives make dull journals, and who would willingly author...
...even welcomes the intrusion of the spotlight. "It blinds me, and I forget about the faces in front of me. I lose all connection with people. I can say everything then. It is like talking to God, to your life and death. On stage, you are another person. You belong to language...
...person who pays more than twice as much for electricity here in Philadelphia than I ever paid in Cleveland, I strongly support the mayor in his fight against the forces which would make Cleveland a one-company electric monopoly...
...avoid the pressure of seeing other students apparently getting their work done, one person said he slept all day and studied all night with a mid-evening pinball-break at 1 a.m. Pinball ranks as such a popular way to ease the eyes and mind that Quincy House has rented an extra machine for the duration...