Word: shelterer
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...Ways and Means approved a "minimum tax" plan that would require everyone to pay taxes on at least half his income. Combining proposals put forward by both the Johnson and Nixon administrations, the plan modifies the exemptions on capital gains and municipal-bond interest and eliminates the tax shelter provided by hobby-farm losses...
...Otunga, and throughout the night mourners filed past the casket at the rate of 100 per minute. Finally, the coffin was ferried across the choppy water to Rusinga Island, the ancestral home of Mboya's clan. Outside the family home, Mboya's coffin was placed under a shelter of poles and cornstalks-to take the coffin into the house would be to run the risk of bringing another death to the family. Next day, Mboya was buried beneath the yellow blossoms of an ayieke tree, together with his oxhide shield, beaded cap and walking stick, as required...
...Negroes are tenant farmers on a white man's land; so if they tried to complain, call in surveyors, and that sort of thing, the white man would kick them off his land. Evicted negro farmers would band together and live in "tent cities" with only patchwork canvas for shelter, and they'd slowly starve...
...detect a chemical or biological attack at the earliest moment-a considerable advantage, because many CBW agents are colorless, odorless and otherwise undetectable before they strike. Even so, it is not yet clear how such knowledge might benefit the civilian population, which could not be rapidly regimented to seek shelter or take antidotes...
...will enable them to range up to six miles from the LM and scale cliffs 500 ft. high. Less advanced but coming along is a 750-lb. "lunar rover," a tracked vehicle with a range of up to 620 miles. Administrator Thomas Paine puts high priority on a lunar shelter, where stranded astronauts could remain in safety for at least two months, time enough for a rescue mission to be mounted...