Word: swellingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contracts with the state to sell a fixed amount of produce at a set price each year. After that level was reached, the workers could then sell any surplus to the state at a markup of 50% or on the open market at whatever price they could get. To swell production further, Deng hiked the price the government would pay for grain by 23%, while urging farmers to supplement their incomes by raising vegetables, poultry or pigs on the side...
...together--playing, carousing, even arguing -- even their camaraderie does not escape the contrived manipulations of the film. Why does Kay finally decide to go out with Lucky after she's turned him down every week for the last month? Her awkward explanation. "You know I think you're really swell" is hardly a sufficient clue. Was her initial reluctance coy, or indicative of some inner moral turmoil...
...substituted for Thomas Derrah on opening night, spends most of the play gazing stupidly at his even stupider girlfriend Lorraine (Maggie Topkis): both play their roles with a frighteningly convincing ditziness. Topkins swills beers and chomps on gum picked off the floor as she sends out for pizza to swell her already-ample girth...
Such deductible investments have become a headache for the Internal Revenue Service. In all, they represent investments of an estimated $50 billion and can cost the Government billions of dollars annually in uncollected revenue. They help swell the federal deficit, enrich tax lawyers and arouse the ire and envy of less-well-to-do taxpayers. Asked what his four biggest problems are, Roscoe L. Egger Jr., commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, is fond of saying, "Tax shelters, tax shelters, tax shelters and tax shelters...
...USInternational 24.6 8. Johnson, Grambling 24.5 8. Cag. San Diego St. 24.5 10. Wood, Fullerton 24.4 11. Burtt, Iona 24.0 12. Jackson, Centenary 23.7 13. Graves, Yale 23.4 14. Gervin, Texas, SA 23.2 15. Mullin, St. John's 22.9 16. McClain, UNH 22.8 17. Stevens, Iowa, St. 22.6 18. Swell, Lamar 22.3 19. Yates, George Mason 22.0 19. McRoberts, Butler 22.0 19. Carrabino, Harvard...