Word: deductionism
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Simple Deduction. In Portsmouth, N.H., a man walked into the office of the Internal Revenue Service, filled out a tax form, sat quietly in a corner, when asked if he needed help, replied: ''No, I'm just waiting for my refund check."
One source of its funds is compulsory "donations." Sugar workers, by means of a 4% salary deduction, last week turned over a check for $30 million. The bank workers' checkoff has so far yielded $20 million. The revolution's faithful can toss their spare change into big INRA...
THE LIST OF ADRIAN MESSENGER, by Philip MacDonald (224 pp.; Crime Club; $3.50), opens with a worried author asking a Scotland Yard acquaintance to check the whereabouts of ten men-and refusing, because of British diffidence and the exigencies of plot, to say why he needs the information. A few...
Appearing last September before a closed session of the House committee, George Bunker, Martin's board chairman, vehemently urged an open session, just as vigorously denied that there was anything unethical about paying the expenses of the officers. "I cannot conceive." said he, "that anyone could possibly believe men...
Across the country, workers responded to Castro's appeal for funds to buy arms abroad. Around the clock, Havana television stations paraded donors, small and large. Some unions set a 4% deduction from salaries. In Pinar del Rio, 400 common prisoners pledged to stop smoking for two days and...