Word: speakes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Little chips learn to speak...
...days before the dedication of the Kennedy School of Government last fall, student groups demanded the right to speak at the opening ceremonies to explain why they thought the school's public affairs library should not be named after Charles W. Engelhard...
Round one--the pies simply graze the ankles of the two participants. The crowd groans in obvious dismay. The second about is more satisfying, with pies be-purpling the chemises of both Miss Markof-Belaeff and Mr. Holmes. However, round three takes the cake (so to speak), when both participants approach within a foot of each other and boldly smush a pie in the other's face...
...into the ground." Without new infusions of capital, either in the form of new investment or retained earnings, plants and equipment rapidly lose their economic value and become obsolete. Naturally, the tax code makes provision for the deprecation of assets, permitting the parent company to "write off," so to speak, their losses...
There is an ugliness in the political climate in Britain today which bodes ill for Mrs. Thatcher's reign. When her advisers speak of the alarming rate of low-class births, and others discuss the need to strictly control colored immigration, but do not offer any plan to combat the mounting unemployment of young blacks in the decaying inner cities, and when Thatcher herself subscribes to the rhetoric of Hayek and Milton Friedman, she cannot be totally surprised if some fear the worst consequences in a country used to 'fair play,' a sense of decency and give-and-take, instead...