Word: sinkings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dare produce on a large scale" because of the taxes. In order to avoid records of transactions and hence a tax on earnings, there has even been something of a return to barter. Example: a dentist will fix a plumber's teeth in exchange for having a sink repaired...
Imagine a vast investment trust, say $1.5 billion or so, that each year takes in hundreds of millions of dollars in small, but regular, tax-deductible cash contributions. Fantasize further that the trustees, with impunity, sink the money into anything they like-the pet projects of some dear friends, for example -while at the same time cutting out of the kitty many of the fund's supposed beneficiaries. Now let imagination truly soar: the trust's investment income is all taxfree...
Then Cambridge. The Charles a muddy sink with built-in garbage disposal. Walden Pond a kiddie matinee. Faucet water flat and stale as month-old Fritos. And even then, no shower attachment in the house. Sisters, mothers, water brothers, no place to go once a laughing river seduces you and runs away...
...surface, the unmanned Viking lander must descend along a preprogrammed path all the way to its touchdown. If it encounters a large boulder, a deep crevice, too steep a slope or high winds upon landing, the craft could topple over and be forever silenced. It might conceivably even sink, antennas and all, into soft ground or a deep layer of dust...
Mental Difficulty. Brownco proposed to undertake the drilling under the ground rules that have made the oil industry, and Houston, for that matter, what it is today. The company would sink exploratory wells at its own risk and turn over a royalty payment of up to 35% of the value of any strike, to be divided equally between the city and the Hogg estate. If, as the city fathers hope, there is oil and gas in the ground worth $50-$60 million, Houston would thus benefit from a large windfall. As Brownco and the city saw it, the exploratory wells...