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...addition to business triumphs, the Newhouses won a singular victory in March against the Internal Revenue Service, which was suing for $609.5 million in taxes on S.I.'s estate. Although S.I. had held the only voting stock, his heirs argued that voting and nonvoting shares should be treated equally because any stockholder dispute could result in protracted litigation and block a potential sale. The U.S. Tax Court agreed and thus effectively ensured that the family would not have to sell off properties, as other media clans have had to do, to pay the tax bill. Wrote Washington Post economic columnist...
...play games with God. They use inclusive terms only when the manuscripts clearly intend to speak of humans in general. To avoid "he" or "him" in these cases, many verses use plural pronouns. Unfortunately, the third-person-plural wordings are less personal and often less pointed than the singular forms. The word man, which occurs in many well-known verses of the R.S.V., is replaced by such synonyms as "mortal" or "humanity...
From the moment that A Chorus Line debuted in April 1975, it caused, in the words of a song in its score, one singular sensation. It swept nine Tony Awards and the Pulitzer Prize for drama. More impressive still, as the years rolled on, it kept packing in crowds until, this past New Year's Eve, the musical celebrated its 6,000th performance, a milestone not reached by any other Broadway offering in history...
...Enola Gay, shorn of its wings, its long fuselage in two parts, commands center stage in this singular historical drama. There is something spiritual and awesome about walking up to the silver flank with the stencil that was put on a few days after the B-29's famous mission: FIRST ATOMIC BOMB, HIROSHIMA...
...yellow-bellied robin is always the first bird to wake in the mornings in the rainforests of northeastern Australia. Its singular call is soon echoed by a chorus of others--the screech of cat birds, the gunfire of Macleay's honeyeater and sometimes the eerie laugh of the kookaburra...