Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...source of special thrill to me was TIME'S account of Dr. Teller's denunciation of the inadequacy of our present educational system, especially the high schools, and the letters to the editor protesting against the crazy trends in present U.S. car design...
Cries of dismay and anguish from businessmen last week forced the Government to back down on its requirement that taxpayers list all expense-account payments on 1957 tax returns (TIME, Nov. 18). The new line on 1957 tax form 1040 can be ignored, said Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Russell Harrington, "because the decision to include [it] was not made public until ten months of the tax year had passed, and thus had a retroactive effect." But Internal Revenue warned that the new requirement will definitely go into effect next year...
...peculiar fascination and shock of this book lie in the fact that it describes the irrational motivations of everyday acts--purchasing and consumption. This is not an account of the mentally ill; it applies to everyone reading the book. The shock for Mr. Packard, however, seems to be the discovery that human beings are not always rational, hardly a very amazing discovery...
...expected of a Harvard football coach. He interpreted the administrative jargon about "good teacher" to mean that he was supposed to give men wanting to play football the fundamentals to do so, a lot of practice, and try to see if his team could turn in a good account of itself in competition...
...smaller cities and suburbs since World War II have passed the metropolitan press with the biggest circulation upsurge in their history. While big-city papers' share of the reader market has actually slipped (from 39% to 37%) since 1953, middle-sized dailies today account for 39% of all the 57 million daily papers sold in the U.S.-and they are forging ahead at a steady 1% a year. They have also been hit less hard by spiraling costs than their metropolitan competitors. Most middle-tier dailies net between 8% and 12% a year...