Word: refundable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Yale is making the six students deposit $1000--a rough estimate of damage--toward paying for removing the paint. If the cost is higher, Yale will collect the rest from the offenders; if less, they will receive a refund. The students have also been told to go to Harvard this week and apologize to Dean Watson. The names of the students have not been disclosed...
...ritual alive for 18 hours and 40 minutes until the final E was struck for the 840th time the next afternoon. The pianists, who were led by Composer John Cage, presented uniform poker faces to their audience, and everyone who bought one of the $5 tickets got a nickel refund for each 20 minutes he stayed in his seat...
Unfortunately, the Administration's fiscal policies assume that the tax rebate will set in motion a self-perpetuating cycle of reinvestment, opening up new jobs, new income, new demand. But the corporations to whom the Administration intends to refund capital already have extensive plant and production facilities in existing industry. Investment by such mature firms tends to take the form of buying equipment to reduce costs; in a word, it takes the form of automation. Thus the business-as-usual cycle may well stop half-way, before new job opportunities are opened. The firms benefitting from the tax cut will...
...Adriatic island of Brijoni. But come winter, Brijoni's climate is just too cold and cloudy, so the dictator has ordered yet another villa, likely to be equipped with his specially designed pool, to be built 170 miles southeast on the island of Hvar, where the hotelkeepers refund the day's rent if the sun doesn't shine...
Persuasive Speech. The festival was organized as a salute to Soviet music in general: along with Shostakovich came Conductor Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, Violinist David Oistrakh, Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich and his wife, Singer Galina Vishnevskaya. (After Pianist Sviatoslav Richter failed to show up, forcing the refund of $11,200 worth of tickets, the Russians tersely announced that their great virtuoso was resting at home with a mild stroke.) But for all the heavy concentration of glamorous box office names, the center of attention remained Shostakovich, who often could be seen sprinting from one concert hall to another to keep up with...