Word: annually
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After they have finished patching termite-holes, the Lampoon's business tycoons will decide if they have enough money left to fund a $50,000 scholarship for Harvard. There is also a good chance that some money will go to the annual Combined Charities Drive...
...Poonies seem to have a talent for making money, they also seem to be able to spend it in a unique fashion. By next October 14 the 'Poonies hope to be ready for their annual spectacular. The date, in case you've forgotten, is the 900th anniversary of the battle of Hastings. Using the majestic Charles River as a stand-in for the English Channel, members of the Lampoon plan to stage a major re-enactment of the historic scene...
...Palais des Nations, the negotiating teams of 51 countries taking part in the Kennedy Round finally sat down to negotiate seriously. Present betting is that they will work out tariff cuts of 25% to 35% on most of the goods that make up the $184 billion in annual trade among nonCommunist countries. Said the chief U.S. negotiator, Ambassador W. Michael Blumenthal: "All the main participants now have the will to achieve agreement. There will be some cliffhangers, but I'm confident that in the end we will succeed...
...Herter, President Johnson's special representative for trade negotiations, has described the Common Market proposal as "very restrictive." The American Farm Bureau Federation wants the U.S. to pull out of the talks unless the Common Market makes a more generous offer. At stake is the $1.5 billion in annual sales of American farm products to the Common Market, which the U.S. fears the Europeans want to reduce...
...life. In this sense, writes Wertham, "we are the victims of the hydrogen bomb before it is ever used," because its very existence forces society to contemplate genocide. Tobacco and alcohol advertising, he believes, also teach a subtle disregard for human welfare, as does the U.S. acceptance of the annual total of traffic fatalities-"vehicular violence." Even patriotism comes under Wertham's rebuke. Monuments to the Unknown Soldier "do not fulfill our duty to the victims," but in fact feed the 20th century's growing disregard for the victim as a faceless statistic...