Word: regular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While drifting from various magazine jobs, moving intermittenly from freelancing to regular jobs, White covered European politics, economics and the Marshall Plan while working in Paris. There he collected material for a bestseller about the hearing of Europe. As things settled down abroad, White returned briefly to the States and got a taste of U.S. politics. An introduction was enough, and he returned to the States for good. To get back in touch, he traveled cross-country and learned less about America than he did about himself and his sublimated passion for politics...
SWEDEN. Capital gains are generally taxed at the same rate as regular income (up to 85%). One exception is the sale of stock held longer than two years, in which case only 40% of the gain can be taxed...
...route more flights through smaller, "satellite" fields that are at present underused. Greater use is already being made of Oakland airport outside San Francisco and Hollywood-Burbank in Los Angeles. At the main airports, lines increasingly are busing passengers to and from their planes when space at the regular gates is tight. Expanding airport facilities can be difficult, and not only because of the costs. At Los Angeles International Airport construction of a new terminal to handle foreign flights has been long delayed pending preparation of an environmental impact statement. Result: Los Angeles remains the top U.S. horror for international...
...congested, baroque rhetoric of shape which would later be refined as the allover skeins and webs of his drip paintings. Still and Rothko regarded their art as mediumistic: it was, Still declared, a way of "being with in a revelation," and this kind of priestly bombast was a regular feature of abstract expressionist utterances. Painting accumulated resonance by appealing to myth...
Walter E. Mattson, executive vice president of the Times, said the principles agreed to provide job guarantees for all "regular" pressmen and give the publishers the right to reduce their work force by attrition over a six-year period...