Word: skim
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...merging of theory and praxis. His was a resounding call to action. Bell's ideas have a powerful appeal, but Michael Harrington is out on the streets, trying to affect social change, while Bell is in his office, analyzing social change. The choice is stark: this weekend, you can skim The Winding Passage and absorb ideas; or you can attend the nearest DSOC meeting
...keep cash flowing in on schedule, many companies are hiring commercial collection agencies. Business is thriving for the so-called corporate knee breakers who skim 20% to 25% from each collected debt. During the first three months of the year, they corralled 22% more outstanding debts than during the same period in 1979. This year collections are expected to exceed $1.3 billion...
...angst, plenty of angst. He knew he would be free soon, only to be trapped. All the tutors to see, sheepish explanations to be proffered, books he would have to skim, words he would have to write. More enemies than he had imagined. Brokaw blared, Pauley pouted. In Tehran, they shouted...
...from bases in North and South Dakota roar into the air. Later, while flying over North Pole ice sheets approximately 1,500 miles from their objectives, each bomber drops a deadly load of up to 20 cruise missiles. Like oversize model aircraft, these small unmanned jets skim at 500 m.p.h. only 50ft. above the ocean. Finally, hedgehopping their way under air defenses, the cruises' nuclear warheads explode in mushroom clouds on their targets, Soviet air and naval bases near Murmansk and Archangel...
Carter's tax is intended to skim off much of the increased revenues that the companies have been earning from the decontrol of domestic crude oil prices. But how big a tax, and for how long, have been major areas of congressional dispute. A joint congressional conference committee headed by Louisiana Senator Russell Long and Oregon Congressman Al Ullman finally agreed on the size. In a sharp horse-trade, they split the difference between a House-passed bill that might have yielded $277 billion over the next ten years and a Senate version that might have produced about...