Word: remit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...make up the losses with Government subsidies. Dumping is far from the only gripe of U.S. businessmen. They often grouse that Japan pours out its goods to world markets but bars much foreign merchandise through difficult import procedures and other technical barriers to trade. In Europe many countries remit the value-added tax, a form of sales tax, on goods that are exported?which can cut the prices of steel sold outside Europe by as much as 30%?while adding a VAT to imported merchandise...
...would, therefore, think it appropriate that those professors who pursue lucrative outside activities which have been made possible by the security and prestige of the tenurial system either give up voluntarily the guarantee of lifetime tenure or remit voluntarily as a gift to the University a substantial portion of the additional income accruing to them from outside work. Such latter funds might be used to supplement the dwindling scholarship monies available for undergraduates and graduate students, who are increasingly encouraged -- by the substitution of loan for scholarship programs -- to tie their own educational plans to market calculations...
Last week, as punctual as autumn, a new notice arrived. Received: an extra 60 minutes in the sheets. Please remit two seasons of gloom...
...Sometimes the Courts' cases involve someone owing someone else $10," Weiss said yesterday, "but sometimes they are test cases with broad implications." Last March Weiss led a group of seven tenants into the Boston Small Claims Court against Joseph Hunter, a Boston landlord. Hunter was eventually forced to remit more than $1650 in unreturned security deposits...