Search results for "Windfall" - New World Encyclopedia
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- quantity of stew. Assuming this unexpected windfall to have been a gift from the gods, the young man, fashioning a pair of crude chopsticks from twigs ...10 KB (1,682 words) - 15:18, 3 December 2022
- version), providing James the only financial windfall of his career. Cream based their version on James' simplified 1960s recording, instead of ...11 KB (1,632 words) - 22:46, 29 January 2023
- apple trees began to appear. Wildlife stealing windfall apples would deposit some of the seeds they ingested, complete with a nice dollop of fertilizer ...11 KB (1,788 words) - 08:14, 3 August 2022
- to be a sign of impending rain, or of a financial windfall. In Brazilian history, the sudden chirping of a cricket heralded the sighting of land for ...14 KB (2,028 words) - 00:20, 15 January 2023
- The unanticipated tax reform causes a "windfall gain" to the owner of the office building and a "windfall loss" to the owner ...37 KB (5,677 words) - 23:33, 3 July 2023
- with the intent of receiving a windfall payment as a result. Such investors were termed "carpetbaggers." After a number of large demutualizations ...19 KB (3,012 words) - 17:07, 23 December 2022
- in the aggregate. Some may be making windfall profits, while others, technologically ... savings) function cannot remain constant. Windfall profits will be distributed ...42 KB (6,124 words) - 03:32, 6 October 2022
- Britain's defeat gave the Gurkhas a windfall of captured firearms as well as a misplaced confidence in their war waging abilities against ...18 KB (2,814 words) - 08:38, 8 January 2024
- may receive an acceptable personal windfall, the trading of patents ... price-gouging while still providing a windfall to the patent holder. A ...72 KB (10,557 words) - 18:57, 23 March 2023
- a period of increased educational spending, the windfall of which allowed the Library to devote energies towards establishing new acquisition centers ...24 KB (3,496 words) - 22:34, 25 October 2022
- than allowing cocoa farmers to maintain the windfall, Nkrumah appropriated the increased revenue via federal levies, then invested the capital into ...26 KB (3,734 words) - 04:40, 4 March 2023
- exporter. Despite the country's economic windfall from oil production, resulting in a massive increase in government revenue in recent years, there ...26 KB (3,689 words) - 19:14, 13 February 2024
- land alone or a graded system would generate windfall gains and losses in the short run as tax bills rise for certain properties and fall for others ...37 KB (5,745 words) - 00:22, 2 December 2022
- into that the state has grossed an earnings windfall. With the general improvement in infrastructure, tourism will become the mainstay of Sikkim& ...35 KB (5,094 words) - 20:10, 21 April 2023
- 60 percent. Nigeria will use part of its oil windfall to pay the residual 40 percent. This deal will free up at least $1.15 billion annually for ...37 KB (5,342 words) - 16:58, 5 June 2023
- stay in the hospital were a publicity windfall. With each successful jump, the public wanted him to jump one more car. On May 30, 1967, Knievel ...38 KB (5,931 words) - 04:54, 23 March 2024
- king was pondering what to do next, he received a windfall circumstance: A Malian, named Ephialtes, informed him of a path around Thermopylae and offered ...47 KB (7,440 words) - 01:40, 26 September 2023
- high oil prices and exports led to a revenue windfall for Saudi Arabia during 2004 and early 2005. But Saudi Arabia's per capita oil export revenues ...57 KB (8,635 words) - 17:04, 23 December 2022
