Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...country which is being severely divided over the Vietnam War, it would seem almost impossible to bring about a major coalition which does not take that war into account. But The Freedom Budget does just that...
...strengthen cost incentives, the group recommended that incentives be determined by an objective board after a given weapons contract had been completed. The more efficient the performance the higher would be the profit. Furthermore, they advised that past performance be taken into account when awarding new contracts. High-performance contractors would be rewarded by a rapid rise in their share of the defense awards...
...Trusted Him." Fisher subsequently got himself and his wife named, along with Alice and Edwin, as parties to at least two joint checking accounts. Eventually, says the bank, he had nearly complete control of the Atwoods' finances; he apparently gave them nothing except allowances of $1,000, or $2,000 a month from 1947 to 1965. Meanwhile, the bank went on, he was transferring more than $3,000,000 out of one account, negotiating loans using the Atwoods' assets as collateral and investing their money in stocks...
...called discount stores are nonetheless multiplying fast; they now account for about $15 billion in annual sales. S. S. Kresge Co., which last year passed Korvette as the biggest discount chain, has 204 K Mart discount stores and plans to add 50 new ones in the next year. In the face of such breathless expansion, as well as the aggressive stances of established department stores, many a marginal discounter may be doomed. A discount furniture store in Atlanta, for example, went broke after Rich's, the city's largest department store, consistently matched its prices...
Futurism is thriving now partly because the unknown always tantalizes man's curiosity. That alone can account for the popularity of books on the subject, even those that have been proved wrong. But this volume and its authors provide a better reason for estimating the look of tomorrow. The future has enormous shock value for a world that has not sought to take its measure in advance. If the world at the beginning of the 21st century were to be as "intellectually unprepared" for change as it was in 1929, 1941 and 1947, write the authors, it would...