Word: scrap
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Genuine Scrap. Josiah Bounderby (Timothy West) is the apostle of the creed, the poor boy who made good, a man of red-faced bluster and aggressive self-pity. "I'm a bit of dirty riffraff," he brags, "a genuine scrap of rag, tag and bobtail." His young wife Louisa Gradgrind (Jacqueline Tong, who played Daisy in Upstairs, Downstairs] is as much a victim of the times as her husband's workers. Her father (Patrick Allen), who runs what is thought to be a progressive school, has taught her to ignore all feeling and rely only on facts...
England entered World War I, according to the Chancellor of Germany, "just for a scrap of paper."* In Black and White in Color, a dusty outpost in French West Africa also enters the war for a scrap of paper-a yellowed newspaper from home, which reveals that the conflict has been raging in Europe for six months...
...this point the lobbyists are zeroing in on the particular parts of the plan that they will try hardest to change. Oilmen will complain that the program is one-sided, stressing conservation, which they applaud, but neglecting production. Their aim is to persuade Congress to scrap Carter's proposed taxes on crude oil and raise costs to consumers by letting prices rise instead. Only in that way, they argue, can they get the money needed to finance new exploration. There is some talk in the industry of having the oilmen themselves propose a "windfall" tax on any profits they...
...alone for a long time, trying to reconcile my life and thoughts with the lives these people are leading. A newspaper article, glued in the scrap book, called them "modern-day pioneers" --a condescending label that nonetheless contains an element of truth. When I left the house, I crossed the stream, walking over to the barn in search of a cousin. There I met Bessie, who kindly permited me, an awkward novice, to milk her. After the ceremony was over, I washed up in the fresh stream water heated on the stove, and drove into the town to meet Annie...
...lower business taxes. Carter wants to offer companies a choice: they could reduce their income taxes by an amount equal to 4% of the Social Security taxes they pay on each worker, or to 12% of the money they spend on new plant and equipment. Many Congressmen want to scrap both alternatives in favor of a plan that would tie tax cuts directly to the number of workers added to payrolls. Ullman's idea: let an employer subtract from-his income tax 25% of the wages-up to $4,200 a year-paid to a worker newly hired...