Word: uses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...They have no sense of history; that's why we have to relive the age of the Brownshirts, when students marched into German universities and took them over." Why are campus disorders spreading? "When they rip up one campus and all that happens is that their right to use the ice-cream-bar machine is revoked for one hour, what do you expect?" Should marijuana be legalized? "By all means. Also murder, rape and arson-then we could do away with all crime...
Loosening Old Ties. Industrial corporations have increasingly been drawn into building and development deals by the opportunities to use borrowed money and tax advantages for an exceptionally high return on their own investment. Developers commonly borrow 90% of the funds they need to operate-a ratio that would worry executives involved only in manufacturing...
...more conservative bookkeeping treatment of the 7% tax credit to which companies are entitled on purchases of machinery. The board wanted to force businessmen to spread that credit over the life of the machinery instead of taking it entirely in the year of purchase. About 80% of U.S. companies use the latter method; for some, it provides the difference between profit and loss...
...basic self-interest. The "how to" article became a staple, from "Taking Advantage of Tax Shelters" to "How to Eat Cheaply at High-Priced Restaurants." Says Felker: "We as journalists looked too long and too lovingly at the hippies, yippies, protesters and rock groups. They are no longer, to use the clichéé, relevant. What is relevant is that you can go broke on $80,000 a year, that you can't get an apartment, that there are new pressures on marriage, and new ways to make money...
...heard rumors about the bust at 3:40 a.m. For the next hour, people woke up and milled around the first floor, where they had earlier agreed to make their non-violent stand against the police. They sang radical songs, received wet pieces of linen and instructions for their use against tear gas, and the phone numbers of lawyers who had agreed to defend those arrested...