Word: webs
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...fact, this is a highly sophisticated improvement on progressive education's old "project" method-an economical way to discover universals from particulars. Conversely, one E.S.I, group wants to broaden eighth-grade American history by including the entire North Atlantic community, showing the web of European rivalries and relationships that influenced the colonies. Also under way: new courses in the classics, grade school and high school social studies. "I wouldn't be surprised if within 18 months we had materials ready for testing in schools," says Historian Morison. It will be none too soon...
There is, then, a compelling case for real reform of the tax structure. The tax reformer's dream, voiced by Chairman Mills in private but never advocated in public, is to sweep away the whole vast web of deductions, discriminations and special-case provisions, and levy tax upon all income (except such Government transfer payments as social security benefits and unemployment compensation). With nearly 100% of total personal income subject to taxation, instead of the present 43%, the average income tax rate would be only about 10%. Even at the top, rates could be gentle compared to today's levels...
...role) flash and charm in his presence. If anybody has duende Kerr has; he explains better than Lorca can how Leonardo manages to drag the Bride along like "the pull of the sea." Yet out of what, in this production, does he drag her? Certainly not a tight, musky web, an oppressive atmosphere of blood and vengeance. Rather a cheery village of polite, almost inaudible gossips; Frank Perkins as the Bride's Father, for example, behaves like an English country gentleman...
...catches her lover in the closet, he is powerless to unwind himself from around her little finger. For, as one of the actors puts it in a formally informal prologue to the double-bill, if Law is justice without temperament, Woman is temperament without justice, Entangled in the web of either, Man is equally helpless...
...ambitious A.K.U., however, the Dutch market is not big enough. One of the fastest growers in the growth field of man-made textiles, the company masterminds a web of subsidiaries, affiliates and joint ventures that extends all the way from Austria to Mexico, and now has 37 factories built or abuilding in eight countries. Last year its gross of $497 million put it neck and neck with Britain's Courtaulds, Ltd. for the No. 2 ranking in worldwide sales of artificial fibers...