Word: amount
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...evoked a considerable amount of student venom since the Faculty created it in 1969 to hear the cases of large numbers of students involved in the takeover of University Hall and other political demonstrations...
...Reducing from 40% to 30% the amount of income subject to the capital gains tax. Asserts a top Reagan adviser: "It'll go through Congress like owl's grease...
...essence of eloquence is that behind the language lies commitment: the words count. There are 13 million small businesses in the U.S. employing half the labor force and supporting 100 million people. If Ronald Reagan's promises of relief from taxes and regulation are not sincere, no amount of fancy speechwriting will cover the failure. Dwight Eisenhower, after all, had trouble arranging his verbs and objects, but people always knew what he was saying or at least what he meant...
...four trials that have been completed. The two best-known defendants to be found guilty are Congressmen Michael ("Ozzie") Myers of Philadelphia and John Jenrette of South Carolina, both defeated in November's election. Myers was convicted of receiving $50,000, Jenrette of taking the same amount...
...Motta was an animal, a bull in the ring and a pig outside, and Scorsese is true to both Jakes. The boxing sequences (which amount to barely a dozen minutes of the movie's two hours plus) are as violent, controlled, repulsive and exhilarating as anything in the genre. Scorsese layers the sound track with grunts and screams, animal noises that seem to emanate from hell's zoo. The camera muscles into the action, peering from above, from below, from the combatant's point of view, panning 360° as a doomed fighter spins toward the canvas...