Word: accountings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seats filled, come equipped with their own boarding stairs, ground airconditioning, and jet-starting units to keep intermediate stops brief. The planes thus satisfy the airlines' most immediate need: low-cost jets to replace obsolescent piston and turboprop planes on runs of up to 1,000 miles, which account for 50% of the world's air-passenger business...
...vertical (between suppliers and customers) nor horizontal (between competitors), businessmen had hoped that either way the decision went, it would mark the first clear-cut application of antitrust law to a conglomerate merger (between companies in unrelated fields). And court-devised guidelines were anxiously awaited, for conglomerate unions today account for 70% of mergers...
Though all of Manchester's information is second-hand (he was home in Connecticut the weekend of the assassination), he thinks he knows what just about everyone was thinking or doing. He should have realized that belabored descriptions of petty intimacies do not make for the most credible account of past events. More important, he should have realized that his wealth of information--the results of endless months of interviews--was no license to interpret repeatedly during his often poorly-written narrative. The result is not, as Manchester hoped it would be, "contemporary history." Any kind of history...
2.Ask the foreigner's advice so as both to ascertain his aims and values and to enlist his sympathy and support. (Both these principles help to account for our Sinophilism...
...then shall Hope and Fear their objects find? ..."), seems in the Lowell version to be more faithful to the original sprit. Juvenal, in a rate constructive comment, here urges man to pray for mens sana in corpore sano. Johnson's soaring close inspires, but is un-Juvenlia on that account. Lowell's tone is simpler, lightly ironic, and a little irritated: just right...