Word: rented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...delayed for years. For the IRS has increased the incentive to give now, adding 10% to the former 20% deductible from gross income. At 30%, museums stand on an equal footing with hospitals and educational institutions in soliciting gifts. And some museum directors pondered whether they might still not rent back donated paintings to givers at $1 a year...
Though many of the struggling "mom and pop" groceries have gone under, the surviving independent grocers have become bigger and smarter. They have banded into groups, such as the mid-Atlantic region's Foodland Stores and Texas' Minimax. These buy in carload lots, rent computers to watch inventories, and hire experts to keep their books, plan their ads, remodel their stores. The "voluntary chains" increased their share of U.S. food sales from 29% in 1947 to 49% last year...
...protectorate was bound awkwardly to equally black Nyasaland and white-ruled Southern Rhodesia. Last year, after Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland demanded independence, London reluctantly cut the ties among the three. Nyasaland is to gain independence in July, but is poor in resources and rich in unemployment. Southern Rhodesia is rent with racial strife because it refuses to grant equal representation to blacks, has received no independence date. Of the trio, Northern Rhodesia's future looks by far the brightest...
...President Steven J. Ross, 36, plans to offer customers as many services as possible along with parking. "The service industry," he says, "already accounts for 50% of all business. As we gain more leisure time, the industry will boom." To take advantage of the boom, Kinney has expanded its rent-a-car fleet from 100 vehicles to nearly 6,000 in the last five years. The company also operates a building-maintenance division, now offers a package service to corporations that includes car parking, car leasing, charwomen and guards. Indeed Kinney is on the way to providing more or less...
Alinsky is Silberman's chief hero, the man who has shown Negroes the way to make themselves most effective. Critics charge that Alinsky is an agitator, and Alinsky proudly agrees; he uses nearly any method for making authorities miserable-rent strikes, demonstrations, marches on city hall. His stated intent is to "rub raw the sores of discontent" in order to inspire a depressed community to act to help itself. Silberman argues that it is this individual participation in action that alone can give Negroes a real sense of their own dignity. "It is in the act (or the means...