Word: remains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...numbers demonstrate that many Vietnamese, from soldiers and officials of the old regime to simple fisherfolk, remain deeply dissatisfied with their new masters...
...Joan Claybrook. On Foreman's 40th birthday Claybrook gave her a gift: a spiky cactus plant. It was festooned like a Christmas tree, with candy, chewing gum and junk food that Foreman had just proposed banning from sale during school lunch hours. Today only a few of the trimmings remain on the tree. The rest, reports Foreman, have been eaten by her sugar-loving staff...
...Some remain, though many have been blown away...
...course, some tax havens remain. Apartment houses and the renovation of historical buildings are the most popular, largely because Congress took no steps to block nonrecourse financing of them. Thus a shelter partnership might raise $1 million from its members and $4 million in nonrecourse loans to convert a rundown building into federally subsidized apartments at a total cost of $5 million. Though the property could be assumed to have a useful life of 30 years, the investors may deduct the mostly borrowed cost over five years, providing them with $1 million a year in write-offs that they...
...advantage cited by many of the parents who teach their own children is the freedom to allow them to pursue a subject for as long as they remain interested. Navy Commander Dennis McCahill, an Annapolis graduate, yanked his four children from their Annapolis, Md., school because "the system clamps down on any originality or creativity." How, he asks, "can one teacher answer all the children's questions when there's one teacher for 25 or 30 children? If a child is really interested in geography or any particular topic, after one hour he is expected to put away whatever...