Word: subtractions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nation is divided into five areas known as Petroleum Administration for Defense Districts (PADDS). Late each month, the oil companies estimate just how much fuel they will have available for sale in each region in the coming month. From this total supply, they subtract 5% to be set aside and distributed at the discretion of state authorities to alleviate local crises. They then subtract the amount they will require to supply all the needs of top priority customers like the military and farmers. The rest gets divided among retail gas stations...
...suede-covered guide to the up and climbing. Getting into The Green Book requires that you not at present be divorced or separated, "unpleasantly notorious," or missing from the recommended list of entries sent over from the White House. The socially savvy staff of the manual add and subtract names right up until the last minute, and were glad that there was still time to delete the Washington socialite who died in a suspicious fire. Says the publisher with a sigh of relief: "It is awful to have someone who may have been murdered still listed in the book...
Taxpayers would be able to subtract up to $500 per student under a bill sponsored by Sens. Robert Packwood (R-Ore.) and Daniel P. Moynihan (D-N.Y.), pending before the Finance Committee...
...their personal returns equal to their proportionate share of the taxes that the company has already paid on its profits. A highly oversimplified example of the basic idea: a person who owned 1% of the shares in a company that paid $100,000 in taxes on its profits would subtract $1,000 from the tax that he otherwise would owe on his dividends. Yet there are many questions, and how this change would work out in practice is most unclear...
Cooper devised aerobic exercise schemes for postulants at each stage of conditioning, aimed at keeping the heart working at 70% of its maximum rate. He advises that runners may subtract their age from 220, then take 70% of the result as an optimum heartbeat rate. Cooper then had the flash of genius that has earned him fame and wealth. Exercisers receive intangible but much prized rewards-aerobic "points"-for doing their routines. An evening of ' bowling? No points. Twenty pushups? No points. A round of golf (walking)? Three points. A 7:59-minute mile? Five points. Get running...