Word: stampings
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Take your $20 gas bill. Paying two months at once, $40 instead of $20, ties . up an extra $20 but saves a stamp -- 29 cents -- and the trouble of having to pay the bill next month. Twenty-nine cents is a "return" of 1.45% on a one- month "investment" of $20, or nearly 19% a year compounded...
...personal stamp on the deanship," says Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Phyllis Keller. "He is a collegial person--people like him and respect...
...personal stamp on the deanship," Keller says. "He is a collegial person--people like him and respect...
...large sympathy vote. An alternative theory is that Indians, aghast at the party's desperate flounderings, will opt in large numbers for the better-organized but politically ominous B.J.P. The outcome in either case would be an ironic footnote to the history of an illustrious clan: its latter-day stamp on public life would have come from an act of great violence...
...every horrid neurotic thing the good doctor has sworn to stamp out. But to Leo's family, Bob is the one thing Leo is not. He is available. For stupid fun. For off-the-wall counseling. For generally shaking things up. Murray, with his curious blend of pathos and aggressiveness, is terrific, and so is an acutely uptight Dreyfuss, never once copping a plea for our sympathy. At the end What About Bob? skids into silliness, but not before Frank Oz proves that he's a director with just the mean sense of humor these bland times desperately need...