Word: writes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...writing a play about Cicero and ancient Rome. You want to make it historically accurate, but you hardly know where to begin. What did the Romans write on? Paper? Papyrus? Scrolls? Did they shake hands? How easy was it to get divorced...
...enough for an associate professor like Brinkley to teach classes so popular that every year a lottery is held to keep admission to 500 people, to write books which win prestigious prizes, and to brave the perils of dining hall food to lunch with students? Does an ambitious junior faculty member at Harvard have to be as old the institution itself in order to gain tenure there? Melanie Cohen...
...likely to enjoy a boomlet as consumers hurry to buy before January. Scott Rielly, 28, a Framingham, Mass., real estate appraiser with a wife and two children, spent $14,000 last month on two new cars -- a Hyundai and a Mitsubishi -- at least partly so that he could write off the $700 sales tax. Rita and Dan Houlihan, a Chicago couple, have the same strategy in mind because of 8% state and city sales taxes. Says Rita: "On a $14,000 car, we're talking $1,120 in sales tax that we could deduct if we buy a car this...
Many deductions will remain allowable but will save taxpayers less money next year because tax rates will be lower. One such write-off is charitable giving, and many nonprofit groups are urging taxpayers to make donations now rather than waiting until after Jan. 1. Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston has notified patrons about the tax advantage in its monthly billings and is getting better-than-usual payments on pledges. Dartmouth College plans to send a two-page tax advisory to 57,000 of its supporters to stimulate pre-1987 donations. Manhattan art appraisers are swamped with requests to evaluate...
...their part, political leaders have courted poets, supported poets, quoted poets. Some have even been poets. Henry VIII, who liked to write verse when he wasn't making life brutish or short for his wives. Chairman Mao, who, when visited by the muse, commanded the largest audience for poetry in history. Poet Leopold Senghor, former President of Senegal. Poet Jose Sarney, current President of Brazil. If political leaders happen not to be poets, they can always seek one's company, so that he may write them into immortality or simply decorate a hard, unlyrical business. John Kennedy had genuine affection...