Word: netted
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...complaints of communication failure with GHQ. Supplies of campaign literature, buttons, bumper stickers were short. In Los Angeles Democrats complained that they had not received enough of the official campaign manuals to distribute to even the top officials-and in Madison, Wis. playgrounds Kennedy buttons were rare enough to net ten Nixon buttons in return. The ironic truth: Multimillionaire Kennedy and his family could legally contribute no more campaign funds...
...From the Latin for a "little net" of tissues lining the blood vessels. The ones that produce white blood cells and (presumably) other defenses against disease are in the spleen, lymph nodes and liver. * Actinomyces bovis, cause of the disease "lumpy jaw" in cattle...
Regarding your Sept. 19 story on the religion issue in the Southern press, you said the Knoxville News-Sentinel had banned publication of letters to the editor that "shed a minimum amount of light on the [religion] issue and a maximum amount of bad feeling." The News-Sentinel did net take this stand. It was the Knoxville Journal which banned letters on religion. The News-Sentinel bans them other times but thinks they're pertinent in this campaign and uses them, eliminating, of course, crackpot, false, unreasonable and rash assertions...
Manufacturers' new orders are down; buying for inventories has dropped until July saw the first net decline in inventories in nine months. (Living off inventories is one way businessmen protect themselves against recessions.) Inventories are expected to show a further net decline in August, though not so large as July's, and a slight accumulation in September. They will show a net decline for the third quarter as a whole. Washington economists hope that the net decline is only a temporary jiggle...
...startling contrast to America's depreciation allowances are the fast tax write-off rates in booming Western Europe. While the U.S. looks upon depreciation allowances as one more strand in its tax-collecting net, foreign governments use them to spur business growth...