Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Larry Spencer, who defected from the Hare Krishna sect in San Diego, told TIME how he was programmed: "They wake you up at 4 a.m. and you start chanting over and over. You're not really there, you're so tired. They pile on the spiritual answers, but you don't have enough time to think about whether they make sense. Every activity you do is what they tell you to do. I always got along with my parents. I was real close to them. But they told me that my parents were influenced by demons. That...
...Dalton School of New York City, says he is having a pretty good time "but I'm trying to win" the award for best delegate in his committee. Power loosens his navy tie and rumples his white shirt some more. "Right now," he says, motioning at the pile of debris which surrounds his chair, "you have to sweat it out, but if you win, that's the fun part...
Meanwhile, the losses continue to pile up. As steel prices plummeted by about 50% between 1974 and 1977, Europe lost $30 or so on every ton sold. The overall deficit last year was about $3 billion, with the nationalized British Steel Corp. accounting for $1.6 billion of the total. The French industry, saddled with a $10 billion debt?Europe's highest?was in effect taken over reluctantly last September by the government. West Germany, Europe's biggest steel producer, has lost the least (about $625 million), perhaps because in the past three years it laid off the most workers...
Example: ten partners join in acquiring an executive jet for $2 million. Each of the ten puts up $200,000, of which three-quarters is borrowed money. The first year alone they can pile up deductions for accelerated depreciation and interest on personal loan debt, as well as a 10% investment tax credit. For each partner, that can work out to a $20,000 direct tax credit, plus a minimum of $80,000 in deductions. In a few more years the partners can recoup all their original investment in tax breaks despite having to pay a levy on income from...
Running hard to pile up a big vote, Thompson stumbled badly on just one issue. He was so eager to capitalize on the tax revolt that he sponsored a non-binding "Thompson proposition," asking voters whether they wanted to put a limit on both spending and taxes in the state. Underestimating the difficulty of rounding up the necessary 589,000 petition signatures in a hurry, Thompson put the pressure on political aides to deliver?and they wound up compiling names of some voters who had never seen a petition. Bakalis responded by crying fraud, but to no avail...