Word: americanizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...show is staged by a new company, known as BARC (British American Repertory Company), a binational acting troupe with an unguessable potential...
...Delhi to accept the territorial status quo in the West, including in Kashmir. Later that day, Mrs. Gandhi offered an unconditional cease-fire in the West. There is no doubt in my mind that it was a reluctant decision resulting from Soviet pressure, which in turn grew out of American insistence. The crisis was over. We had avoided the worst-which is sometimes the maximum statesmen can achieve...
...dollar is being eased out of the cornerstone position it has held since World War II, gold and some strong currencies are moving in. The American campaign to remove gold from the world money system has failed;, as one example of bullion's continuing monetary role, the seven-month-old European Monetary System that links seven Common Market currencies has gold as a centerpiece. Fritz Leutwiler, the president of the Swiss National Bank, quotes from the Book of Job: "I have made gold my hope or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence." Some leading Americans...
...employees to select their own benefits beyond a certain level of required medical, pension and life insurance coverage. For instance, a middle-aged bachelor might choose higher contributions to his pension plan in return for reduced medical benefits, which he does not need since he has no family. At American Can, employees can forgo, say, annual medical checkups in return for an extra week of paid vacation. Says Senior Vice President Sal Giudice: "A lot of young people opt for that. They want to take that winter ski trip...
...plot summary can so easily capture the real McGee. One of the most complex long-run characters in American fiction, he is moody, sensuous, suspicious, quixotic, cynical, compassionate-and funny. He has achieved independence from "plastic credit cards, payroll deductions, insurance programs, retirement benefits, Green Stamps, time clocks, newspapers, mortgages, sermons, miracle fabrics, deodorants, checklists, time payments, political parties, lending libraries, television, actresses, Junior Chambers of Commerce, pageants, progress and manifest destiny." Hence his license to purge iniquity. Unlike most of his fictional colleagues, the creaky crusader visibly ages. "He grows older at about one-third the natural rate," says...