Word: proper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...help the taxpayer stay pure, the Internal Revenue Service has set up a system of checks and double checks. When a return first lands on the desk of a local collector, it is scanned for proper information and necessary enclosures. Minor errors are corrected, and marginal sarcasm from taxpayers calmly endured. But wait! Less obvious errors, or outright evasions, are searched out after the returns have been routed to three data-processing service centers across the U.S. There returns are translated onto a punch card and checked by machine for arithmetic accuracy. The U.S. taxpayer is pretty punk at adding...
...generation proclaims its ' independence with a language all its own. For chuvaki, or cool kids, slang also serves a highly practical purpose: it is incomprehensible to parents who may be listening in. To Russian teenagers, flesh-royal (from royal flush) means "the most"; pravilny (literally, proper) is "square...
Boston, for all its confessed culture, shows a curious propensity for sitting blandly by while much of its history washes dolefully away. Those interesting landmarks which are not allowed to deteriorate silently for lack of proper care, are scornfully demolished to make way for high-rise concrete and steel...
...plaguing many a big-city mayor: modern cities often bear the major burden of state financing, though many state legislatures are dominated by rural minorities. Last week that problem became hot news as the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a decision giving federal courts the power to restore a proper balance to lopsided legislatures, and assure the cities of an adequate share of state taxes. For this new chapter in the continuing story, see THE NATION, The Supreme Court...
...advocates maintain that the nuclear deterrent must have the proper "mix" of bombers and missiles to overwhelm an enemy with a variety of weapons systems. If one does not work, another will-and the RS-70 is a whole new weapons system in itself. Those same advocates point out that production will stop this year on the Air Force's last two bombers-the 600-m.p.h. B-52 and the 1,300-m.p.h. B-58. If the RS-70 is held back, they say, the entire U.S. bomber fleet will eventually be obsolete...