Word: account
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...figures on output per man-hour. It was largely Reuther's desire to get this information that inspired him to make an eleventh-hour appeal to submit the dispute to arbitration. A three-man panel, Reuther suggested, would impose a binding settlement after taking into account "productivity and profitability," as well as "the equity received by Ford executives and stockholders." Dismissing such considerations as "beyond the scope of collective bargaining," Chief Ford Negotiator Malcolm Denise predictably rejected the notion...
Hoping to stamp out uncoded checks of all sorts, which account for a troublesome 2% of its daily traffic, the Fed has relegated them to a sort of second-rate status. Unlike coded checks, which are processed in a day or two, an uncoded check submitted to one of the Fed's twelve regional banks might be shuffled for ten days or more...
...During one encounter he playfully imprints her rear with a German occupation stamp-an indelible gesture that scandalizes her mother, who promptly trots daughter all over town, showing the handiwork to anyone who will look. Eventually, the crestfallen dispatcher is brought before a rubber-stamp congress of officialdom to account for his shocking behavior. Brandishing photographic evidence of the misdeed, a Nazi bureaucrat asks: "Miss Svata, is this your behind?", and prates about the "defamation of the German state language...
N.A.R.'s fiction roams imaginatively over a wide landscape-from a Kafkaesque account of a prisoner-of-war interrogation in Viet Nam by Victor Kolpacoff to a bittersweet rendition of a mother's day in Washington Square Park by Grace Paley ("Kitty has three green-eyed daughters and they aren't that great . . . they are no worse than the average gifted, sensitive child of a wholehearted mother and half-a-dozen transient fathers...
Occasionally, the cliches do part long enough to let through the eloquent facts that sustain the book. It is mainly those facts that account for its presence on the bestseller lists-and strongly suggest that Novelist Arnold might better have written straight nonfiction...