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...other occasions, the husbands and sometimes friends were aboard the planes. Using the cost of first-class commercial tickets for a yardstick, the staff figured the flights were worth $27,015 in taxable income to the President. Since 1971, Nixon has reimbursed the Government for family flights...
...declared that he had not been given "a fair deal." How could the commission blame him for not calling up the reserves and not blame Dayan, who operated on the same information as he? "One can only conclude," Elazar went on, "that the commission did not apply the same yardstick...
...establish a national oil company to compete with private producers. This proposed federal corporation would explore and drill for oil and gas on public lands. The price of its output would be strictly related to the cost of production, and so is supposed to serve as a yardstick by which to measure the profit margins of private companies. "The bill," White says, "has a chance, a bare chance, to pass...
Putnam said this week that three to five firms would be chosen to handle this smaller chunk of the portfolio. This will provide Putnam and the Corporation with a convenient yardstick with which to measure the performance of Cabot and the Harvard Management...
...well as a rather bewildering buying guide, the catalogue is a yardstick that shows how far into America's heartland the women's liberation movement has traveled. There are listings for a feminist printing press in Iowa City, Iowa, a women's theater group in Atlanta, Ga., and 102 U.S. cities and towns that have information centers for local feminist activities. To write the book, the authors, former Columbia University Teachers Susan Rennie, 33, and Kirsten Grimstad, 29, took a 12,000-mile tour of the U.S. They then illustrated, typeset and assembled the book with...