Word: shellful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three in three years), Washington State officials had written a clause into Powers' three-year contract stipulating that if he left early, he would have to buy up his contract. For the privilege of earning $35,000 annually in the prestigious top job at Missouri, Powers had to shell out $5,000 in escape money and take out a three-year promissory note for the remaining $50,000 at 9% interest. Powers, a onetime defensive back for the Oakland Raiders, views the move to Missouri as a boon to his career, however costly it may be. Says...
...taxpayers, those earning about $20,000 a year or less, will enjoy a net saving; those earning more will find Social Security increases outweighing the income tax cuts. Two examples: in 1979 a typical family of four earning $15,000 a year would pay $258 less income tax, shell out $42 more to Social Security, and save a net of $216. A family earning...
...Pistols' antics add to the entertainment, if one enjoys a little gutter rebellion and a lot of depleted expectations. Rotten, Vicious, Jones and Drummer Paul Cook are only in their early 20s, but they have mastered the art of the 1950s pelvic thrust completely. Rotten is the live shell: an emaciated, electric figure who jumps from simian crouch to arm-swinging swirl to Groucho Marx prowl. Dissolving a coy smile into a demonic leer, he half snarls, half shouts the notorious Anarchy...
...when their favorite series will be on. "The old habit of most people was to think, 'If it's Saturday, it must be time for Mary Tyler Moore,' " says Tenebruso. "You can't assume anything any more. Shows are shuffled around like peas in a shell game." If a viewer misses the first episode of a miniseries, he may skip the other episodes as well...
...boyfriend Salai. It is not, of course, the only masterpiece of portraiture in the show. The tradition of the Roman portrait bust was kept and amplified among patrician families. The show is also exceptionally rich in objets de luxe, ranging from a golden Aphrodite set on a lapis lazuli shell to The Casket of Projecta, a bridal coffer, dug up in Rome late in the 18th century, but made around 375 A.D. to celebrate a marriage of Christian aristocrats. A m�lange of Christian symbol ism and the still-active images of classicism ?Nereids riding on sea serpents, Aphrodite...