Word: upper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expected, an entomological display of macho erupted. Battling to assert their supremacy and win a female, the two little beasts went at each, other like monsters in a Japanese sci-fi flick, pushing and shoving each other with their horns. If one beetle seemed to be getting the upper hand, the other often slumped on its side, blocking the first beetle's path. The more aggressive beetle would then use his horns as levers in an attempt to dislodge his opponent. Sometimes the defender flipped over on his back and locked horns directly with the aggressor. All the while...
Ellen Hart kept things going in the second half with the niftiest goal of the afternoon. She intercepted a Williams pass at midfield, dribbled past two defenders and blasted a shot that hooked inside the goal post in the right upper corner...
...Brooklynites: "The average New Yorker pays $800 more in federal income tax today than four years ago. I think that's insane." His audience agreed, but still seemed a bit baffled by the Kemp-Roth 33% solution. As Ann Hickey told the Republicans at a subsequent stop in Upper Darby, Pa.: "I just don't see how you can cut taxes without cutting services, and I want to know what services are going to be cut." The still untested Kemp-Roth theory may prove to be reasonably correct, but G.O.P. Congressman John Anderson of Illinois sardonically admits: "The average voter...
First the upper chamber voted a $4.5 billion reduction to offset the increased Social Security taxes. Then it tacked on an array of special-interest freebies. New York Democrat Daniel Moynihan proposed that the New York State Power Authority be allowed to issue tax-exempt bonds. It passed. Russell Long's Senate Finance Committee had moved that chicken coops built by egg producers should qualify for a 10% investment tax credit. It also passed. Taking up the controversial issue of reducing the tax on capital gains, the Senate turned out to be $1.4 billion more generous than the House...
This resulted in a much more variegated adaptation profile for black students in the earlier period than over the past decade. Furthermore, this multi-faceted and transcultural (that is, trans-ethnic) adaptation pattern of black students at elite colleges during the years 1920-1960s produced a quality of upper middle-class professionals, businessmen, scientists and technicians that has never been surpassed...