Word: accounts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Instructional Fund--an account the Faculty uses to cover its deficits--has shrunk to an all-time low, with a current value of $4.8 million. In 1962, this fund was worth about $12.6 million...
...blast away at independent-minded attempts to counter this theory of discrimination. He tells them to take off their blinders and realize that liberty, specifically meritocracy, will always produce inequalities no matter how much people persist in attributing that inequality to discrimination. As usual, Glazer does not take into account the basic reason for the common belief that differences in equality are caused by discrimination: given the premise that the races are equal, how else can you explain the great disparity in income, education, and quality of life...
CALIFORNIA, that vast American raisin in the sun, is the hero in Tom Dardis's account of the Hollywood years of five writing greats. In 1937 F. Scott Fitzgerald, whose wife was in a sanitorium, whose agent was unable to sell a single manuscript, and whose earnings for all his books in print during the past year had totalled $81.18, thought that his days were numbered. So when Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer offered him a $1250 a week contract to write film scripts he had no choice but to accept. That his frustrating last years in Hollywood, when he tried, desperately...
...real problem with Some Time in the Sun is that not the screen-writers' but Dardis's own values have been corrupted. For him, the big names and big numbers, presented as a choppy blow-by-blow account of the making and breaking of movie contracts, is enough of a story. Beside some embarassing moments following Fitzgerald's drinking bouts, Dardis rarely mentions how living in Hollywood affected the writers' daily lives. Nor, except for a brief description of a bookstore where they congregated, does Dardis's interest in the writers' impact on Hollywood penetrate more than skin deep...
Feldstein said the government adjusts the unemployment figures to account for seasonal lags or spurts in job availability...