Word: writes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...depletion allowance. It would be phased out over five years, except on the very smallest wells (those producing 10 bbl. a day or less). But oil operators saved a far more important tax benefit. The Treasury had originally wanted to make them stretch out over a period of years write-offs for "intangible drilling costs," including everything from engineering studies to geologists' expenses. The final plan, however, allows the oil operators to continue taking all the write-offs immediately. While industry lobbyists still protested the impending death of the depletion allowance, some individual oil executives were pleased to fend...
...veteran catcher made the call after receiving a postcard a day from Johnson all season, who made it a point to write to her hero after each Oriole outing--win or lose...
...work on books for Digital Press, which has offered to publish their work. But what's in store for them in the long term? Elvy takes the lead is admitting he wants to settle down eventually with the "white picket fence and dozens of kids, I want to write a book someday. I'll call it Hick from Harvard,' Hick from tobacco farm tobacco to Harvard, makes good," Langerman reacts with horror. "That's him, I don't have long-term goals. I'm 21. I figure I've got 30 years ahead expect to live...
Huang, whose parents write for official mainland publications, says he was "chosen by Harvard, not by the government," to attend school here, after alumni in Peking administered an exam that mostly tested ability to speak and write English. He wrote an essay on "the religious calling in American jobs"--a subject he freely admits to know nothing about...
...because he introduces such a vast amalgam of material into his discussion, Cohen sometimes encounters problems. One difficulty is the occasional superficial treatment of complex historical events. To write, as Cohen does, that there was little fear of a political revolution in 19th century England is simply incorrect. A more lamentable but necessary shortcoming is the book's limited space, restricting his discussion of some interesting subjects...