Word: supplemental
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mortgage-interest differential to compensate for higher rates on new home loans. Employees must pay more taxes on such extra money, but companies frequently compensate for the additional tax bite. A decade ago, only 55% of firms provided for sale-price guarantees, while just 12% gave a mortgage supplement...
Although Barth said he expects "about 100" area educators to participate in the center's programs this year, several principals at the reception yesterday said the $100 membership fee might discourage them from joining. Barth said the fee was necessary to supplement the center's $90,000 first-year budget, which pays for the services of a small staff of researchers, the maintenance of a resource library, and honoraria for seminar leaders...
...combination--we supplement the cruiser patrols with the guards and supplement the guards with the electronic systems," Chafin said...
Moreover, the firm that once proudly manufactured nearly everything it sold has been forced to go to outside suppliers. In 1979 IBM began buying microchips from Japan to supplement its own chip production. Last February the company signed an agreement with Japan's Minolta to market one of that company's small copiers under the IBM label. The Minolta model sells for less than $3,500, while IBM's smallest copier costs at least...
...nothing be done, then, to satisfy what might be called the niceness market? Surprisingly the answer is yes, something could be done. Somebody could produce a Literature of Niceness to supplement the not-so-nice real thing. In a society that is overloaded with writers, there must be imagination enough to contrive sunnier alternative life-styles for many of the fictional characters who otherwise will endure in the pain, anguish and futile passion imagined by their authors. Why, for one instance, shouldn't King Lear be seen in some truly golden retirement years, preferably in an adults-only community...