Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prophets have come and gone. And the average businessman is now trying to summarize their messages and find out what they said. First, he finds that financial as well as other doctors disagree; second, that when such messages from the master minds of Business really say anything, it is apt to be limited to the district or business in which the particular master mind is preeminent...
...Britain has almost exactly reversed positions with Germany: where Britain had 20.9% of world exports of manufactured goods in 1953 and Germany only 13.4%, Germany, by latest figures, has 20.2% v. Britain's 13.7%. In a land that reveres Dickens, Mr. Micawber's terse economics seems very apt: "Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery...
Next come the marchers, swinging along with mob gaiety and waving their xenophobic standards at the white faces in the embassy window. Then up roars the jeerleader-often a government in formation ministry man in a sound truck. The next arrival is apt to be a riot truck, probably provided-though for different purposes-by U.S. AID funds, its sides marked with the agency's symbol of clasped hands. Out come the carefully collected stores of cobble stones, brick halves and rocks. And then the fun begins: curses and shattered glass, bonfires and blazing auto mobiles, looted snack bars...
...tree sales have soared into a $155 million annual business. Now, a Chase Manhattan Bank survey points out, artificial trees have taken over 35% of that total and are raising their share of it rapidly. Unlike the cheap and flimsy creations of old, most of the artificial trees are apt to be polyvinyl wonders that resemble the real thing in all but falling needles and forest smell. They are not only flameproof-one big selling point-crush-proof and fadeproof, but can be stored away in a box. And though some sell for as much as $130, most sell...
...skitters about, fighting the impulse to take his best friend in his arms and kiss him, Charlie wards off the advances of Pat Boone (sacred love) and Walter Matthau (profane). By the last reel, he/she/it has turned up in a more felicitous incarnation. Too late, though. Public apathy is apt to send Charlie off to the boneyard reserved for classic Hollywood fumbles...