Word: stockely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year-old, standing before her parents and "auditioning" as Joan of Arc. So when she graduated from high school she turned down the college acceptances--among them, one from Radcliffe College--and took her first job in the theater (she ended up in Cambridge, after all, as a summer stock apprentice for the thenlegit Brattle Theater...
Perkins was a rather conservative fellow of solid Yankee stock, and Berg wisely uses accounts of Max's relations with his writers to tell the story. Berg gives the basics of Max's upbringing and personal life but perceives that these can go only so far toward answering just why he demonstrated such an uncanny ability for spotting and remaining faithful to the young men and women who went on to become some of America's finest writers...
BRITAIN. Though unearned income is taxed at Shylockian rates of up to 98%, capital gains were not taxed at all in Britain until 1962. Now almost all profits from the sale of personal goods, property or stock are subject to a levy of 30%. Among the few exemptions from taxation are profits from the sale of a principal residence, automobiles and personal possessions sold for less than...
Weiss said he will sell the Nestle products he has in stock, but will not order any more. "I think American consumers have too little say in the products they buy, so I'd like to go along with the boycott," he said. "I'm also worried about losing business," he added...
Koka said that in his tour of the U.S. he is attempting to make Americans aware of injustices and violations of human rights by the white minority government in South Africa. He also said he wants more support for sanctions such as divestiture of stock in corporations operating there...