Word: accountable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Norman Treigle's "tough accent" is pure New Orleans and not diluted by Brooklynese, as your account suggests [Oct. 3]. He talked that way when I knew him as a student at Loyola University of the South. So do most natives of New Orleans whose speech is not affected by the patois of rural southwestern Louisiana. When I first taught high school boys in New Orleans in 1935, I too was struck by what I thought was a Canarsie accent. The boys with the "tough accent" were mainly natives of the New Orleans "Irish Channel." As one of them...
Though the old slogan is being muted, things have been going better with Coke. Profits and sales have risen steadily to $110 million earned on $1.2 billion in revenues last year. True, the company could have been more nimble in shifting to meet new buying trends: its products account for an estimated 41% of the U.S. soft-drink market, but the company's Tab ranks only third in the market for diet colas. On the other hand, Coke has diversified quite successfully in recent years, notably with its big-selling Fresca. Now the company hopes to put still more...
There are still some things that credit cards cannot buy. So last week the Bank of America, the nation's largest, came to the aid of cash-short consumers by installing an automatic "cash dispenser" outside one of its branches in San Francisco. Anyone with a checking account at the bank can withdraw $25 simply by inserting a plastic identification card and punching a code number on a ten-digit keyboard. The machine verifies the information by means of electronic sensors, then slips the money to the customer through another slot. It keeps the card, which is returned...
Giving an almost hourly account of the five days in August 1968, Pierson mentioned in his testimony five of the eight defendants and attributed inflammatory statements to Rubin and Seale...
Lerner's poem is more abstract, impressionistic, a disjointed account of an apocalyptic evening in a bar in New York, which "has been Idle Wild/since you've been gone...." The poet tries to get to, tries to explain "a world that's really wordless" but everything is fractured...