Word: regular
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Once they are established, the owners of the outlets represent a regular source of income to the parent company, since they generally pay it a percentage of gross revenues and often share advertising and promotion costs as well. A Super 8 franchisee, for example, pays the firm a royalty of 4% of gross room revenues and contributes an additional 2% toward system-wide advertising...
...Dutch physicians carry out an estimated 8,000 to 10,000 mercy deaths every year under a set of unofficial conditions: request of the patient, unbearable suffering, accord of the family and a second opinion by another physician. A panel of five provincial attorneys general reviews cases on a regular basis. In 1984 one of the smaller opposition parties proposed a law that would legalize euthanasia along the lines of present practice. The government is working on a more restrictive version, and sometime this fall the Cabinet must find a compromise...
...Congress was not told that $20 million of that sum went to set up a supersecret intelligence unit, the ISA, under the command of Colonel Jerry , King. (The role of regular Army intelligence is to collect tactical military information, not to lay the ground for covert operations.) ISA initially was to act as a pathfinder for secret missions, but its functions quickly expanded. When General William Odom became assistant chief of staff for intelligence in late 1981, he argued persuasively that ISA was needed to fill gaps in the CIA's activities. Its personnel grew from about...
...hard to remember that until the 1960s ghettos from Harlem to the South Side of Chicago were beacons of hope for blacks fleeing from the rigid segregation of the Jim Crow South. Jobs -- dirty, low-paying, but regular -- were available in thriving urban industries to anyone with a mind to work and a back strong enough for heavy lifting. Although pernicious, segregation at least compelled a sense of community, with black professionals and businessmen living among those who were far less successful. "These figures served the black community well as visible, concrete symbols of success and moral value, as living...
Could all this be simply a projection of Chatwin's own footloose urgings, a legacy from generations of talented Englishmen who sought regular escape from their restrictive little island? From Cain and Abel to Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents, there is ample sign of conflict between homing and nomadic instincts. Chatwin is not unmindful of the persistent ambivalence. He quotes Pascal's morosely amusing thought that all human misery is the result of our inability to remain quietly in a room...